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President Joseph Biden and former president Donald Trump are exchanging attacks on each other as the mid-term election campaign begins, but the left is largely irrelevant to the political battle. Trump calls the Democrats socialists, while the Democrats push the few actual socialists to the (...)
EVERYONE KNEW IT was coming: the unhinged Alito Supreme Court ruling that trashed a half-century of Constitutional abortion rights was leaked on May 2, seven weeks ahead of time. The grassroots reproductive rights movement began mobilizing immediately to confront the crisis — from outraged (...)
Romney as President Donald Trump began denying the 2020 election result and claiming that he actually won a second term. A patrician’s judgement, Romney’s use of “madness” was also an assertion of incredulity that many of us have repeated a number of times over the last few years. Endless lies with (...)
A doctrine embraced by some conservatives could be adopted by the US Supreme Court. And if they do, Americans’ political power will be dramatically limited.
In a case to be heard in the coming months, the U.S. Supreme Court could decide that state legislatures have control over congressional (...)
Nearly two months after the May 24 shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left nineteen children dead and seventeen wounded, two teachers dead, part of the truth was released in an interim report by a committee of the Republican-controlled state legislature.
Other than the (...)
As inequality has grown in the United States, our nation’s charitable system is in danger of becoming a taxpayer-subsidized platform of private power for the ultra-wealthy. This poses risks to the independent nonprofit sector and our society as a whole.
Since our first edition of Gilded Giving (...)
For the first time, an element of the U.S. government has accused former president Donald J. Trump of being the leader of an attempted coup d’état. The chairman of the House select committee to investigate the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Democrat Bennie Thompson, stated that, (...)
The horrific mass shooting of nineteen children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, May 24 has brought the issue of guns, particularly weapons of war like the AR-15 rifle, and mass shootings to the world’s attention.
It has also exposed the endemic racism in how the (...)
An 18-year-old man carrying an AR-15 assault rifle, a weapon of war, walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on the morning of May 24, shot and killed 19 children and two teachers, and wounded another 17. Earlier in the day he shot his grandmother.
The children he killed and (...)
Despite a House investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection and criminal investigations in several states, former president Donald Trump remains the leader of the Republican Party and a powerful influence on its politics.
For the coming November 2022 primary election Trump has endorsed (...)
The American socialist Randolph Bourne wrote in 1918, “War is the health of the State.” It can also be salubrious for presidents. While COVID and Russia’s war on Ukraine have brought economic changes that affection millions of Americans, Biden is, nevertheless, gaining political support. A recent (...)
The Russian war on Ukraine has completely roiled American politics. Ultimately it could determine the future of both President Joseph Biden and former president Donald Trump, both of whom may be candidates for president in 2024. Both parties find the war has complicated their possibilities in (...)
The best way to help the people of Ukraine is to ignore the war promoters and choose the path of negotiation—for their sake and, with nuclear missiles on both sides of the Atlantic, for ours.
Saturday Night Live responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by devoting its “cold open,” which (...)
Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy coming out of Washington, D.C. could hardly be more striking.
Though U.S. and NATO policy in recent years has contributed to the current tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, responsibility rests unequivocally with the Kremlin. It is an illegal war (...)
The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill similarly notes that “the talking heads on cable news are almost drooling over the prospect of a ratings-boosting war.”
Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden on Friday joined global critics who are decrying news outlets for encouraging war with their coverage (...)
“Civil and voting rights is not only a Black issue. It is the touchstone for basic human rights that benefits all working-class people—Black, white, Latino, Asian and indigenous. It was won in a long bloody struggle over decades. That lesson is crucial today in fighting and defeating Trumpism.” (...)
The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take stock of the causes of America’s decline since this year saw both Washington’s inglorious exit from Afghanistan after 20 years in the country that had served as the launching pad for its direct military intervention in (...)
As “our democracy” disintegrates, the House Select Committee “investigates” the J6 riot. Its report is promised “by November,” right when the barely-Democratic-majority Congress disappears…
The January 6, 2021 Trump riot at the U.S. capitol should have blown the right wing out of the water. A year (...)
The January 6 Capitol riot was the product of a decades-long attempt to destroy democracy in America — one that Democrats have never made an effort to stop by creating a government that is serious about the public interest.
Today is the one-year anniversary of the January 6 riot, which was the (...)
Alexander Keyssar says GOP disinformation, rise of dueling narratives don’t bode well for end to crisis of legitimacy any time soon
It’s been nearly a year since then-President Donald Trump exhorted rallygoers at a speech Jan. 6 near the White House to “demand” that members of Congress and Vice (...)
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