A popular joke among leftists on the internet is that Republicans like to put white heterosexual men in power to bomb foreign countries while Democrats like to put people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and women in power to bomb foreign countries. Despite their differences on social and cultural issues, the two major political parties have had a nearly unified foreign policy since the Cold War … Continue reading Let them Google tests
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is the youngest member of the Biden administration. He’ll be forty next January, younger than any man to ascend to the presidency so far. If he secures his party’s nomination in 2024 and wins the election, he’ll become the youngest person elected president, a few months younger than John F. Kennedy. Buttigieg probably had no illusions that he would be the … Continue reading Are Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg really rivals?
News broke in the late afternoon Wednesday that the Biden administration plans to continue to defend the federal government in Hunter v. Goldberg, what could potentially be a major case for LGBTQ+ civil rights. The case stems from the Trump administration and deals with the right of religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ+ students and it’s the kind of thing you would not expect the … Continue reading Biden, LGBTQ+ rights, and the duty to defend
Back on Thursday – if you can remember back that far – Time magazine named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as its “Person of the Year.” This surprised no one, since the POTY has been the winner of the presidential election since 2000: Bush, Obama, and Trump all got the accolade in their election and (for Bush and Obama) re-election years. That’s as far back … Continue reading Joe Biden isn’t the person of the year – but ‘Time’ is trapped in a loop
Back in 2019, a rumor began circulating. First, it flowed through prominent Democratic officials and donors, then through the outer ring of politicos, and finally through the press. The rumor: Joe Biden, the 77-year-old seeking the presidency for the third time in his life, was also seeking it for the last time. He did not plan to run in 2024, whether he won in 2020 … Continue reading President Kamala Harris
From the staffs of KHN and PolitiFact October 8, 2020 The Trump administration’s pandemic response: decisive action that saved lives, or the greatest failure of any presidential administration? During Wednesday’s vice presidential debate, Vice President Mike Pence and the Democratic challenger, Sen. Kamala Harris of California, offered drastically different takes — from behind plexiglass screens — on how the president has handled the COVID-19 crisis. … Continue reading In Debate, Pence and Harris Offer Conflicting Views of Nation’s Reality
Hello, dear readers of Pyramid. My post summarizing/reacting to/snarking about the first presidential debate was not originally written for this site — as you might have guessed from that introductory sentence that assumes you know where I stand and what I’ve written in the past. Since you may well be thinking “who the fuck is this fuck?”, I thought it might be nice to introduce … Continue reading Pence, Harris, and the night we’ll never get back
On June 27, ten candidates debated in Miami, each hoping to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in July 2020. The night before, ten lesser-known candidates (with Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker the outliers, at least until Julian Castro’s breakout performance elevated him out of the doldrums) had a relatively civil debate that was heavy on policy on light on political jabs, even against … Continue reading Busing, Biden, and the Looming Question of Age
Last night, voters had the opportunity to see the first ten candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. In a policy-heavy and not particularly exciting debate, the candidates showed that the differences between them have a lot more to do with how they would accomplish goals like universal health care, immigration reform, or addressing climate change. Or they’re John Delaney and they think that they’ll … Continue reading Debatable: The second 10 candidates
We’re deep in the middle of the 2020 presidential election but it’s March of 2019 and we should not be in the middle of an election that’s still nearly two years away. In an effort to restore some sanity to the earth, here’s a very nonsensical listicle. You’re… welcome? There are currently fourteen candidates with campaigns or exploratory committees who we’ve profiled in the Who … Continue reading We’re ranking the Democratic candidates by how silly their names sound
