Today is Primary Day in New York and, as the song goes, anything can change. Today, Nicole Sandler talks about the city where she was born, Bernie Sanders, and more. Her guests today are Black Lives Matter activist and candidate for Mayor of Baltimore DeRay Mckesson and The Gliberal Goddesses - @Gottalaff, Amy Simon and Nicole gather again...
Earlier this morning, I put up a guest editorial from Jennifer Nix and Mark Myers that first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle last week. Since the paper is behind a paywall, Jen and Mark gave me permission to repost "He Said She Said: The superdelegates' outsize role." Click over and read all about the Democratic Party's very undemocratic dirty little secret (that's not so secret any more!) Jennifer Nix and Mark Myers joined me for the last half hour of today's show to try to explain the history of the superdelegate, how and when they vote, and how we might [...]
We somehow made it to the end of this bloody week still standing. Today on the show, Nicole Sandler chats with The Nation's John Nichols about Wisconsin's new voter ID law & how it accomplished what the GOP legislature (who passed it) set out to do. Lee Camp brings the humor about the serious stakes as we head into the weekend. And in honor of Joan Baez endorsing Bernie Sanders, we have a Flashback Fri segment from 1996 with Joan and Dar Williams.
Bernie Sanders won a decisive victory in Wisconsin last night. He's on to Wyoming for Sat. caucus, then on to New York, where Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have stepped up the lies and attacks. And the media is smearing Bernie over his NY Daily News editorial board interview which, frankly, was spot on. Today, Nicole pushes back on the corporate media narrative. Plus Deborah Newell joins in to talk a bit of FloriDUH. And energy analyst, journalist and author Antonia Juhasz tells us about women making a difference in combating climate change
The primary races head to Wisconsin today amid talk of deteriorating "tone". Nicole opens the phones in the first hour to get your thoughts on the year of the "artful smear. @GottaLaff joins in for hour 2.
Rachel Maddow has officially jumped the shark, carrying water for her corporate overlords (Comcast) and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Audio doesn't lie. Nicole takes off the gloves this morning. Plus Driftglass and Howie Klein join in to talk about our collective electoral insanity and more!
We are an angry nation inside an angry world. The choice we're making in this election year is how best to deal with the anger. Nicole discusses that and more with professor and author Harvey J. Kaye, and Blue America PAC's Howie Klein
Nicole Sandler was at last night's Democratic debate in Miami and shares her observations from the back of the hall. Harvey J. Kaye returns to discuss the insanity of the 2016 election season and more. And foreclosure defense attorney Bruce Jacobs tells us why the foreclosure crisis hasn't been mentioned in the debates, but is the sleeper issue of the 2016 election cycle.
Deborah Newell (of the blog Litbrit) is a regular guest on the Nicole Sandler radio show, as am I, although we've never been on together. But we do keep in touch in various ways. One way is through a listserv (a private email group of progressives) on which Deborah wrote the following on why she, a diehard feminist, is voting for Bernie Sanders. It took some serious thought, introspection, and scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's policies before Deborah made that decision. Her personal story and experiences that led her to support Bernie Sanders touched me so deeply that I felt compelled to share. [...]
Nicole recaps the Super Tuesday election returns with fellow FloriDUHian Deborah Newell and the Campaign for America's Future's Dave Johnson.