Trump is effectively pitting the interests of a relatively small group of people, those who work in factories, against hundreds of millions of consumers. Seven years ago, the Obama administration accused China of unfairly subsidizing tires. It imposed tariffs reaching 35 percent. A subsequent analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank, calculated the effect: Some 1,200 American tire-making jobs were preserved, but American consumers paid $1.1 billion extra for tires.

this election was proof of the utter failure of either party to be relevant to 99 percent of American life — to even acknowledge the desperation that is a fact of life for most of the country.

I'm so tired of this shit and I see it everywhere. If that were true Hillary wouldn't have beaten Sanders nor would she have beaten Trump by 1.7 million votes and counting. Some pundits claim that her margin will likely be over 2 million when the counting is done.

The poisoning of Appalachia’s drinking water, from mining runoff, industrial waste, worn-out pipes, a whole confluence of causes, isn’t a new story. A 2009 New York Times article about the effects of tainted water on a community near Charleston, W.Va., details the effects of any contact with the water.

He lied. You knew it. I knew it. All that's left is for the rural white voters to decide is what excuse they'll use to blame it on democrats when he doesn't do anything he promised.

Environmentalists in Washington are fighting over whether a carbon tax or cap and trade is the best way to fight climate change. This is a subject I discussed briefly during the primaries when Sanders insisted that Hillary must support a carbon tax or she doesn't care about the environment. This article lays out in much more detail the reasoning behind the difference in opinion between major environmental groups and leaders on this issue.

As the drumbeats grow louder demanding that the Clinton Foundation bow to political pressure and close its doors, I’m reminded of my own skepticism more than a decade ago about what Bill Clinton could accomplish. The Clinton Foundation announced it was partnering with the Indian National AIDS Control Organization to help train 150,000 doctors to support modernized HIV/AIDS treatment. I did not believe that the Clinton Foundation could achieve such a lofty objective. When the initiative was launched, people living with HIV were so stigmatized that their civil rights were violated.

Taking a cue from many of his Miss Universe contestants Trump comes out in favor of world peace.

Q: What would be the best deal you could negotiate as president of the United States?

A: Peace all over the world would be the best deal. And I think I would know how to do it better than anybody else, but peace all over the world.

Sanders failed to draw a critical percentage of black and Hispanic voters away from Clinton in the primaries... but perhaps more importantly it's because his platform couldn’t address their unique concerns without subsuming race and racism in the class rhetoric of "democratic socialism." This much is clear: For a lasting movement to rise from the ashes of the Sanders campaign, it would have to make huge inroads into the establishment’s black base. Creating a movement seriously and convincingly committed to the cause of anti-racism would be a good start.

Below is a running list of the most troublesome findings for Wasserman Schultz and her party. As new revelations come out, we'll update it.

On Friday, the publishing platform WikiLeaks posted 19,252 searchable emails, including 8,034 attachments, from inside the Democratic National Committee. the data trove is easily searchable for personal information like credit card numbers, birthdays, and even Social Security numbers.

This should be the end of any respect anyone might still have for wikileaks. It's become a criminal organization where hackers post people's personal information for scammers to data mine.

When it comes to the varieties of patriotism, I'd make the case that some of us look more toward the past and others to the future. Some Americans speak of our nation's manifest virtues as rooted in old values nurtured by a deposit of ideas that we must preserve against all challengers. Others focus on our country's proven capacity for self-correction and change. As a result, one stream of reverence for our founders flows from a belief that they have set down timeless truths.

How did we get to this point? The answer is twofold. For seventy years, leaders of both parties have pursued trade deals less to strengthen the American economy than to achieve geostrategic aims, from rewarding political-military allies to fostering development of emerging markets. And they’ve been encouraged in this pursuit by generations of economists who have argued that trade deals, no matter how one-sidedly generous to other nations, are also good for the American economy—which raises the second point.

Sanders supporters aren't just rallying around Clinton; they're doing it rather quickly. And it's a big reason Clinton just extended her lead over Trump into the double digits, 51 percent to 39 percent.

the Vermont senator insisted that the delegate count is fluid. And he expressed confidence that he could persuade some “super delegates”— the party leaders who are not locked into voting for a particular candidate — to peel away from Clinton in the “six long weeks” before Democrats gather in Philadelphia.

One reason public restrooms provoke such strong reactions: They’re hotbeds of anxiety already. They’re places where private behavior becomes shared, where taboo subjects cannot be escaped, where intimate body parts are exposed. We’re taught from an early age that excretion should be secret, spoken of euphemistically, if at all. we are violating something we learned early and deeply. Of course we feel awkward, embarrassed or vulnerable. To understand how deeply that anxiety runs, look at how many people are unable to even use public bathrooms.