Politics

“This is NOT a normal election cycle—and anyone who describes it using the shopworn rhetoric of ‘business as usual’ is almost certainly either living in a cave or acting as a corrupt tool of the ‘toxic Establishment.’”

Even in troubled Afghanistan, there are alternatives whose sum could potentially slice through this Gordian knot of a policy problem.

Similar at heart? Parallel in the most important ways? Sanders stands for all the Trump hates. And vice versa. Trump could be the 1% poster child that drives Sanders' dramatic anti-elitist, anti-inequality, anti-climate change denial movement. A true challenger to the status quo (party and nation) and the oligarchic "establishment" that runs this country, Sanders is more polar opposite to Trump than alleged first cousin.

Juan Cole reviews the 10 GOP presidential candidates on one key issue—how likely they are to drag us into another war. Here are the individual answers to that pertinent question.

The progressive vision for 2020 is focused on the needs of average working people, on the strength of society rather than on winner-take-all individualism, on the cooperative efforts of underpaid people who have been forced out of the middle class.

"One problem with the idea that Democrats will benefit from a backlash to Roe being overturned is that the party leadership don’t seem to like the idea of there being a backlash to Roe being overturned."

Are we Americans in the calm before a storm? What lies ahead for the people of this country?

The devastation of Raqqa was not covered in the English language press with the same vigor as the earlier battle for Aleppo.

“Bernie Sanders presents the clearest alternative to Trump. He is willing to name the problems, what’s causing them, and proposes the bold solutions that we need to solve them. . . .”

The transformation the Republicans want would make the nation collectively dumber and much more dependent on profit-making businesses.