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Scott McLarty is former media director for the Green Party of the United States. He has had articles, guest columns, and book reviews published in Roll Call, TheHill, CommonDreams.org, Z Magazine, CounterPunch, Green Horizon, The Progressive Review, In These Times, and several local and community publications and small press. He grew up in Long Island, New York, and now lives in Washington DC.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020"Vote Biden, Fight Him Later" Isn't Enough Voting for Biden and challenging him after he's elected aren't enough. We need to enact Ranked-Choice Voting... and stop letting Democrats take our votes for granted.
Monday, March 4, 2019Forget Red vs. Blue: The Paradigm for the 21st Century is Orange, Purple, and Green Red versus Blue (Republican conservative right-wing versus Democrat liberal left-wing) seemed to work for the last century, but it's not working for the mess we're in now. With a Field Guide for spotting Orange, Purple, and Green on the political landscape.
Thursday, May 19, 2016About That Post-Bernie Movement The post-nomination Sanders movement will face its first test -- or opportunity -- in September. Will it demand a place for the Green Party nominee in the fall presidential debates? Or will it look the other way while ideas they claim to support are silenced? The legacy of the Sanders campaign should be that its defeat killed illusions that we can ever expect a political revolution to come out of the Democratic Party.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016Political Revolution and the Third-Party Imperative The Sanders campaign has raised hopes, but no real change is possible as long as the political landscape is limited to the two parties of war and Wall Street.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015After Bernie What will Bernie Sanders' supporters do when "We need a political revolution" inevitably turns into "We must vote for the lesser evil"?
Monday, April 13, 2015Hillary Won't Save Us, Neither Will Bernie or Liz Despite their obvious differences, the Democratic and Republican parties are both on the wrong side of this century's major crises. 21st-century time bombs like global warming require a drastic change in the U.S. political landscape.
