This is part of Two Bad, a series exploring Americans’ lackluster enthusiasm for the 2024 election and the problem of the third-party candidate. It’s not outlandish, then, to think some of them will peel off to support famed intellectual Cornel West, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination. As West Germany’s Green Party surges earned global attention in 1984, leftists …
Elon Musk on Saturday tweeted that funding for Tesla came from his proceeds from Paypal, and from Series A funding in 2004 until Series C in 2007. Elon Musk was responding to a tweet by American activist Ralph Nader, who said that Tesla was started with a US government welfare grant, which was taxpayers' money, which Musk has taken to …
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When Ralph Nader appeared on "Democracy Now!" "Well, this is clearly the most dangerous political movement since the Civil War — the GOP under the corporate fascist Trump's thumb," Nader replied. Nader summarized the Republican threat to democracy: "We have never seen a party literally trying to repress the vote, miscount the vote, purge the vote, intimidate precinct worker volunteers …
