by MCDC | Jan 24, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Opinion, Virginia
By Dave Leichtman, DPVA Vice-chair for Technology and Communications (via BlueVirginia) With the news that Delegate Herring is stepping down as DPVA Chair, I believe the time is right for some deep introspection within VA Dems. We had some big wins in 2013, and for...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Events, Video, Voter Rights
by Cory Doctorow Brian sez, “Lawrence Lessig, former EFF board member, chair of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, founder of the Center for Internet and Society, founding board member of Creative Commons, and former board member of the Free...
by MCDC | Dec 12, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Video
by Hunter The obsessive centrists of the punditverse are abuzz with praise for supposed centrist Democratic organization Third Way and their grumbling op-ed condemnation of Democratic liberal populism in abstract and “economic populists” like Sen....
by MCDC | Dec 9, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Ethics, Farm Bill, Issues
by Paul Rosenberg Hilary Hoynes is a University of California at Berkeley economist who wrote a particularly notable paper last year. Instead of increasing dependency, as conservative critics have repeatedly claimed, Hoyen’s paper showed that, for women at least, food...