Tag: Democratic party
Democratic Party ‘leadership’ is upside down
Clearly, much of the Democratic Party’s momentum is now coming from the left. And many of the positions that the timeworn Democratic leadership has staked out are now being overrun.
It’s time for Democrats to abandon stale centrist politics once and...
The party’s centrist wing is terrified. The political enterprise they’ve spent their careers building runs counter to the big, universal redistributive policies being supported by the Democratic base.
It’s time for progressives to raise their game
The progressive populist insurgency in the Democratic Party has tasted frequent victories this primary season: for our struggle has only begun.
Senate Democrats, with few exceptions, are a gang of warmongers
Where’s the 'democratic socialist' challenge to militarism?
Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “spectacular” victory & growing split in...
Noam Chomsky gives his honest opinion on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's win.
Geithner’s grift, paydays and Democratic drift
Unfortunately, too many Democratic operatives would still rather be like Tim Geithner, even if their party – and the country – pays for it in the end.
‘Progressive’ Democrats need to reconnect with the American people; regain their...
Progressive Democrats must make the restoration of this government to one “Of the people, by the people and for the people” their main objective.
Trump’s North Korea Summit reveals Democratic Party fault lines
In the United States, Democrats and Republicans should unite behind the peace movements that are driving this diplomatic opening.
‘Establishment wins’ are bad for Democrats – and the country
Even if they take back the presidency in 2020, the Democratic establishment’s ideas will once again fail to meet the great challenges of our time, politically or as policy.
Pyrrhic Party: The Democratic establishment’s War on Progressives
When the party machinery becomes a liability among its own voters, it is time for the party to change.
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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’
I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.
Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model
Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage
More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.