How Bernie can be a hope and change president
If Democrats are looking for Obama 2.0—an inspirational figure with the drawing power of a rockstar celebrity and a mass, multiracial movement behind him—they've found it.
Putin’s cold, cold strategy
Sure, Putin still has a lot of fight in him. But ultimately: he’s a dead autocrat walking.
Biden, Buttigieg and corporate media are eager for Sanders and Warren to clash
Keeping eyes on the prize this year will require a united front that can strengthen progressive forces, prevent any corporate Democrat from winning the party’s presidential nomination, and then go on to defeat Donald Trump.
Six reasons why American corporations shouldn’t get a tax cut
A corporate tax cut is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
The next US-North Korea summit
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are scheduled to meet again. Here are several reasons to be optimistic about next month’s summit.
Iran wags impeachment dog
Trump is blustering at Iran and to the world that we might just need to crush that pipsqueak terror country.
Chief Obama trade negotiator: “We can get the votes” for TPP
“I don’t see how anyone could believe there was integrity in this process.”
‘The only one I didn’t want her to pick’: In secret recording, Trump admits...
"Had she picked Bernie Sanders it would've been tougher. He's the only one I didn't want her to pick."
Ukraine
The significance of Ukraine’s struggle certainly doesn’t lie in educating Americans, but perhaps it is finally making us reckon with the costs of war, as we’ve needed to do for so long.
Why 2020 won’t be won by centrists
In reality, what’s going to beat Trump are new ideas that mobilize America, that let Americans see what the wealthy and powerful who bankroll Trump have done to this nation.