Politics

They are cynical opportunists who try to paint a picture of a perfect past and country under siege by immigrants, the left and traditionally marginalized communities demanding the same rights taken for granted by most of those who voted them into office.

Just as the people of Venezuela have not elected or appointed Juan Guaidó as their president, the people of the world have not elected or appointed the United States as the president or leader of all Earthlings.

“Today is international human rights day, what a shame. How cynical to have this decision on this day.”

“We simply cannot and must not sit by and allow millions of our fellow citizens, who worked hard their entire lives, to spend their golden years living in poverty.”

Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.

How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.

There is something especially vicious when a powerful politician descends to abusing innocents in an unsuccessful deception he knew would fail.

"The anti-choice movement does not only have a lot of money, they also have a plan and the determination."

Current evidence presages more bad news for the Trumpist right before 2024. Democrats must only hold the center to replay in 2024 its 2020 triumphs.

An oral history recounts the organizing that led to 2020’s historic presidential and senatorial victories in Georgia.