While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.
Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science.
As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years.
The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.
I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.
Sanders insists the party adopt 'the most progressive platform ever passed' at its Philadelphia convention. Since when does the runner-up get to dictate the platform?
