Tuesday, December 23, 2025

After the #Bern: What’s next for the progressive left?

It will no doubt feel to many on the left that a strategy that’s less reliant on national leadership is too slow and requires more work on the part of voters to not only become activists, but to participate in local elections and make an effort to look at the records and policy proposals of down ballot candidates in national ones.

Why I Faced Arrest, Even as I Battle Cancer, to Fight TPP

"If ratified, the TPP would lock in monopolies for certain new medicines, biological medicines that help people like me stay alive."

People who care about democracy don’t plot coups abroad

Do we think people who armed death squads and started wars really want to “bring democracy” to Venezuela?

Should we bomb Syria (or Afghanistan or anywhere)? You’re asking the wrong question

Critics of nonviolence say that option is the prerogative of the privileged. But actually it’s the other way around.

Previewing the democratic debates: Every flavor of NBC, trusting corporate media on climate

The Democratic National Committee has announced the lineups for its first two presidential primary debates, which will be hosted by NBC on June 26...

Lester Holt Succeeds in Fact Checking Trump in Real Time

Holt did what Matt Lauer wouldn’t.

GOP readies ‘shameful’ vote to oust Omar from House Committee

"The GOP is riddled with white nationalists and antisemites. It is infuriating and absurd that they are trying to distract from the bigoted hatred in their own party by attacking a progressive woman of color."

George Santos ‘must resign or face expulsion,’ progressives say after arrest

Santos, who has been facing calls to resign since he admitted to lying about his background following his election to Congress late last year.

Outside groups pour money into Biden support

With the odds in Biden’s favor, Priorities USA will now be the largest outside group in the race, and will use some of that budget backing the former vice president.

Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington

Why do these doofuses keep trying to shove such wildly unpopular measures down people's throats?