We need a mass movement to demand radical progressive change
Is the Democratic Party beyond hope?
A marriage made in hell: Trump, Bannon and “the Muslim ban”
Trump and his inner circle seem intent on using the cudgel of the executive to diminish the clout of the judiciary and the Congress.
Does stirring Biden rhetoric impede the new, improved, fascist mania—or reform unjust systems?
Until Democrats wake up that their future and the country’s both depend on urgently slamming shut anti-democratic doors and empowering true majority rule, fine rhetoric falls flat.
Biden should stop payment on US funds to Sisi’s Egypt
They should put a “stop payment” on the U.S. taxpayer-funded check that has enabled Sisi to operate with impunity.
James Baldwin and the meaning of whiteness
“There are days, this is one of them, when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it.”
The retired General who stopped a Wall Street coup
General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a millionaire-led effort to oust FDR and the New Deal.
The myth of the rugged individual
The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make...
Back off, doom and gloomers. Offset grief by embracing looming, if chance Trump blessings
In a world no single force can control, one can still imagine the range of theoretical positives from Trumpism 2.0
Will gun-shy Dems ever learn this core (if alarming) Trump lesson—relentless promotion serves up...
Democrats must treat voters as consumers who view politics (rightly) as “another marketable product.” A coherent party must deliver big, core, election-winning achievements—if only to avoid a mid-term bloodbath.
Trump’s end
Good riddance.