Democratic Party

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate tonight and PlanetPOV will be hosting a live chat to accompany it. The debate and our live chat begin at 6:00pm PST!

Trump speaks to, and uses for his own purposes, the darkness that can overtake us when we are confronted with the stress and fears of rapid change. One manifestation of that darkness is racism.

The last Democratic debate before the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary takes place tonight, Sunday, Martin Luther King holiday weekend at 6:00pm PST...or as Hillary Clinton would call it, "prime time".

I've been thinking a lot about Watergate lately. Watergate, as much as it was a political coming-of-age for America, coincided with my own personal coming-of-age. The actual break-in occurred just weeks after I'd graduated from high school and the initial...

Many media pundits struggle with object permanence when it comes to the normal, reoccurring process of primaries. Instead of a primary having trust falls and drum circles, the candidates are now actually criticizing each other so they can convince voters why they should be the nominee instead of any of the others. So they can run against Trump. Why is it so hard for them to see that 2 comes after 1?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65xilSDyso&feature=related Did everybody hear that? Did you? Did you listen to every word? Do you know what it was? It was a good, old-fashioned labor leader exhorting a gaggle of workers gathered to celebrate the one day our country sets aside...

Midterm election articles

There is no mechanism for the change you want, and most of the country wouldn't want it. I hate it when the American left become caricatures of themselves. How they mirror what the Tea Party was on the other side of the coin.

In an online conversation this past weekend, someone reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in years - the Reagan Presidential campaign of 1980. Some of the most effective campaign commercials used by the Reagan team during that...

It could be an early night if things go strongly for Hillary or a long night if it doesn't and there's no better way to watch the returns roll in than right here in the company of your fellow Planeteers in our live chat.