Hillary Clinton is the change America needs

On the power of gradual progress, not wishful thinking

Will Hillary Clinton rise to presidency and reform America?
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Over the coming weeks and months, Democrats in caucuses and primaries around the country will choose between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to be the party's nominee. Some are now casting the decision as one between "continuity" and "change," with Clinton representing a continuation of President Obama's agenda and Sanders representing a shift toward the transformational change that escaped Obama.

This binary is completely false.

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John Stoehr is a lecturer in political science at Yale and the 2016 Koeppel Journalism Fellow at Wesleyan.