Tag: Democratic party
A Green New Deal must be 100 percent just
A 100% Just Green New Deal doesn’t just offer a blanket promise of good green jobs and training for everyone, it will ensure that jobs training programs and investments in job creation are targeted and available first to the communities that need them most.
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.