Politics

A bold thesis that best makes sense of an astonishingly calamitous Trump week. The unforced Trump implosion invites provocative interpretations, even projection of a readily predictable demise. Trump never thought he'd get this far and is now showing why he should go no further. How does he reverse this week's torrent of political self-destruction, worsening his General Election leverage? Can we not imagine Trump’s PR skills going into full damage control mode, even sniffing how to make lemonade out of souring lemons.

If only this remorse was delivered from the forty-fifth President of the United States.

"We are in a blatant class war in the U.S. and we cannot win unless we as workers unite and unionize. Bernie knows this. And he will fight to make it happen."

Let's meet one of the most powerful of these lords of rapacious global capitalism — Glencore.

For a guy who yells about Washington and Wall Street money in politics, Donald Trump sure has a lot on insiders on his team.

Freedom First will be about the U.S. as not just a “shining beacon on the hill” but the only beacon on the only real hill.

Macron favors continued French intervention in West Africa and Mali in order to “eradicate the threat at its origin.”

What kind of FBI should progressive activists support? What kind of leader should it have?

Agreeing to forfeit all obscene material from his electronic devices, Weiner is currently scheduled for sentencing on September 8.

The Office of Research and Development has been at the front line of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.