Tag: 2020
Year-end insights galore, but what will we, can we learn from...
On display: full combat between the forces of ignorance, bigotry, deception and propaganda vs. knowledge, understanding, wisdom and besieged aspirations of justice and equality.
Donald Trump may not be Herbert Hoover
A graduation speech for an Age of Collapse from Tom Engelhardt.
What it means that Hillary Clinton might Run for president in...
Whether or not Hillary Clinton runs for president again, Clintonism is a political blight with huge staying power.
The left is already winning the 2020 presidential race
Democrats are embracing bold progressive policies – and setting the terms of the debate – for the first time in 40 years.
2020 Vision: Four Steps to Get There
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.
POPULAR
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
Trump delivers lunch to Beijing
China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
Omar says ICE drawdown ‘not enough’ as thousands of agents remain deployed in Minnesota
After Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal immigration agents would leave Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, civil rights groups, and national coalitions said the move leaves an ongoing occupation intact while killings, constitutional violations, and international human rights complaints remain unresolved.