Sanders had big ideas but litte impact on Capitol Hill Politico

Top Democrats suggest that when it comes to getting things done, there is no comparison between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Tammy Baldwin, both with many fewer years in Washington.

As for taking on Wall Street, one of the issues Sanders is most identified with on the campaign trail, former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank said Warren’s done much more to protect the landmark Dodd-Frank financial regulation law in the years since its passage.

“She has been more effective at blocking efforts to weaken the bill. [Sanders’]mind-set is that there’ll be a revolution,” said Frank, adding that he doesn’t remember Sanders being involved in any of the affordable housing work he did in the House. “He plants his flag and expects that someday everyone will see he was right.”

Sen. Tammy Baldwin from Wisc,, a supporter of Hillary Clinton who describes herself as a big Sanders fan, fumbled last month when asked to point to a piece of Sanders legislation that was high-impact, other than the "much praised bipartisan Veterans Affairs reform he led as chairman of that committee in the Senate."

“Um,” she said, pausing for a full eight seconds while thinking, “I’m sure I could. In terms of the things that he talks the most about, is when he was chair of the Veterans Affairs committee. But he actually compromised on a whole heck of a lot. Back in … it’s not coming to my mind right now.”

How Toxic Masculinity Poised the 2016 Election Esquire

Parents used to worry about what their kids might say in public, but in today's presidential election, the debate stage turns to dick size, writes Stephen Marche. If you're a Hillary supporter, you have a real clear understanding of the term 'toxic masculinity' -- and we're not only focused on Republicans. The Bernie Bros have sunk to every level of misogyny against Hillary Clinton, and writer Stephen Marche agrees.

Toxic masculinity is not a phenomenon limited to American politicians, of course, but they have come to represent its consequences all too perfectly. Men and women are in a state of unprecedented flux—economic, sexual, and political—which amounts to a more or less complete reevaluation of gender. The process of that reevaluation has left many men scared and stranded. You can call it a hollow patriarchy and you can call the hypermasculinity that has risen in its wake straight camp. Whatever you want to call it, the ancient iconographies of men are collapsing, and many men are lost and suffering in the wake of that collapse. These primaries we're witnessing are living proof.

At the end of the day, there is one grown up in the school yard, writes Marche, and she is the only female left in the presidential race.

When all is said and done, when the soap operatics are over, there's only one candidate who has a reasonable, calm, mature, plan of action that doesn't convert her own identity into that of a Messiah or a minister of death. Strictly in terms of policy, in terms of a realistic appraisal of the political system and basic math, it doesn't really matter whether you're a straight white man from the South, or a black Northeastern teenager, or a mid-transition, Mexican-American from the Pacific Northwest. The only grown-up in this contest isn't talking about dick size because the only grown-up in this contest doesn't have one.

Hillary Clinton Headlines March 11, 2016

It's not just Trump. Authoritarian populism is rising across the West. Here's why. The Washington Post

Sanders Backers Optimistic and Generous, After Michigan Miracle Bloomberg Politics

Bernie Sanders Said Something We Weren't Ready To Hear Last Night Esquire

Trade and Tribulation by Paul Krugman

How Much Wealth and Income Does America's 1 Percent Really Have? The Atlantic

How Bernie Sanders' Wall Street Tax Would Work NPR

Hillary Clinton's Statement on Who Started the HIV/AIDS Conversation Still4Hill

Clinton Seeks Rust Belt Rebound, Targets Automaker 'Rules of Origin' Bloomberg Politics

'Broad City' stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer shared at a SXSW panel on Saturday that 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will appear on Wednesday's episode, March 16. The show's plot shows Glazer's character -- who has been fired for tweeting a bestiality video on her employer's corporate Twitter account -- connecting with the Clinton campaign.

Questioned on the SXSW panel, a young woman asked Glazer and Jacobson why those chose Clinton and not Sanders to showcase, suggesting that Sanders was a better values fit. Jacobson said: "That's not our show, really, we're not making a political stance here. It was really more that this is something Ilana's character would do. And Hillary, regardless of where we stand — and we love Hillary — Hillary is such an iconic figure right now and she has been." Glazer also responded to the question, saying, "We're trying to make really good TV. I wonder how you'll feel after seeing it. I think you'll agree that it's a really good episode of TV because Hillary Clinton is in it."

'Broad City's executive producer Amy Poehler supports Clinton.

Glazer doesn't think they'll be campaigning for Clinton in the near future, but not because they don't support her. "I don't know if that's helpful," says Glazer. "We're these pot smoking characters."

And then there's the matter of the bestiality video.