When one starts to put two and two together, it starts to sound like this kind of “anti-socialist” ideology is…
We need to flip the script so expert economists’ first instinct isn’t to attack workers, where the pain will be…
The gang of extremists, who controlled the process of deciding the Speaker, did not so much elect McCarthy as much…
While far from perfect, A League of Their Own, like Biden’s speech, tries to push the soul of America to…
Biden’s plan is an effort to create fairness and equity when it comes to access to higher education.
If these hateful Christian nationalists want to secede and form their own fascist state to tyrannize over themselves, why don’t…
The 1/6 Committee hearings have not changed Republican minds about reality, only about Trump’s viability.
This is a form of government not of, by and for the people, but one against the people. This is…
We can’t really judge or evaluate Biden’s meeting with MBS without properly assessing the outright and serious threats to democracy…
They aren’t dumping Trumpism, just Trump. Indeed, what some pundits have termed Trumpism is really just what mainstream Republican politics…
Rather than assess our history and re-think traditions that are unhealthy, indeed lethal, for us, SCOTUS, lead by the illogical…
While the celebration of Title IX was certainly planned ahead of the release of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe…
We have to recognize that the Supreme Court is now currently operating not just as an enabler of domestic terrorism…
Media coverage blinds us to the fact that Biden’s Build Back Better plan contained the very policies that promise to…
The gun, in many ways these days, has become the symbol and means of tyranny, a tool for taking down…
All of these issues—women’s right to choose, gun control, the rights of people to love how they want and marry…
She expands the debate beyond student loan forgiveness to give us a broader lesson in civics and reality.
Forgiving student loans is an opportunity for the nation to create policy rooted in a recognition of the importance of…
If we want to end inflation, we have to recognize how this dynamic is bound up in assaults on democracy…
Less attention has been given, in discussions and analysis in the media, to the actual text of Alito’s opinion, especially…
We hear—and can certainly observe—how the wheels of international justice turn with agonizing sluggishness or simply don’t move at all,…
The surest way to secure a strong economy that works for the majority of Americans is to support—and vote—for democracy,…
Democrats need to focus intensely on loudly telling the story of what life in America will really be like if…
We need to recognize the role of labor and collective organizing in achieving democracy.
We must recognize the authoritarian threat directly and clearly, and highlight the continuities between Putin’s anti-LGBTQ politics and those in…
we shouldn’t refer to their acts of barbarism and wholesale mass murder as “war.” We need to call it what…
I’m not just saying fighting alongside Ukrainian soldiers is the moral thing to do. I’m saying it’s the smart political…
Want to stop autocracy? Want relief from inflation? Democracy is the theory of everything.
Biden and the Democrats need to counter with the very true narrative that electing Republicans will hurt Americans
The NFL that publicizes ending racism, presumably to sell its product, also deeply believes in the intellectual inferiority of Black…
This amnesia threatens to push Americans back to the authoritarianism we so narrowly escaped--by a hair!--in the 2020 election.
The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s…
While Biden is trying to fix problems and steer the ship of state in the right direction, these substantial Republican…
We need to tell the story of unionization and collective action at least as much as we tell the story…
Liz Cheney does not oppose the authoritarianism and anti-democratic impulses of the Republican Party.
The ongoing public negotiation among Manchin, Biden, and progressive Democrats has made clear that Manchin has been trafficking the same…
Manchin’s betrayal has created an opening, an opportunity for Democrats to spur a much broader profound and urgent reflection on…
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) on Monday urged Manchin to revisit his rejection of the planning, highlighting the…
If they’re going to act like Republicans, then Biden and the Democrats need to treat them like Republicans.
It’s a huge deal—people standing up a declaring they want a voice at the table in their workplace, to participate…
For whom does the hangman need to come for moderate and conservative Democrats to care?
This type of coverage of the mere politics, as opposed to the underlying reality of inflation, constitutes in its own…
The Rittenhouse verdict is one piece of this larger campaign to destroy democracy and energize white supremacy.
We are not seeing acts of revolutionary uprising. What we are seeing is the rise of terrorism and authoritarianism.
Elements of the Democratic Party have bought into this Republican framing, similarly deploying “wokeness” as a term of slander and…
We see the media and many Americans giving the Republicans, who engage in abusive behavior by refusing to do anything…
We know what’s in the bill: attempts to make a more equitable society that sustains and supports the health and…
As workers realize and assert their real power, rooted in the fact that we all depend on each other’s work…
Republicans are scary, indeed. But the moderates and mainstream media members who aid and abet them, living in denial, are…
We are at a dangerous moment in America. Republicans have effectively sanctioned violent vigilante justice.
A belief in science supports a socialist philosophy and worldview, and to slander or dismiss socialism may very well undermine…
Most disturbing about this evidence is the way it highlights just how widespread the acceptance of sexism, and of violence…
So, Facebook’s behavior is a symptom of alienation, and it shouldn’t be any kind of “jaw-dropping” surprise.
The chief value-driving economic behavior, the U.S. economy itself, is not the meeting of human need, and thus it is…
For Republicans, freedom means they also get to impose their belief systems, their version of “law and order” on everybody…
What Republicans call “socialism” isn’t giving away free stuff; it’s smart short and long-term investing.
Scarborough’s logic is exactly that which also enables the anti-vaccination movement and, frankly, movements to undermine democracy.
The founders conceptualized freedom as a social mission, a social obligation, the chief goal of which was to serve the…
“Folks [are] supposed to have common sense.” These are the now well-known words of Alabama’s Republican Governor Kay Ivey when…
Understanding the role white rage has played historically in undermining the economic well-being of people of color as well as…
We need large organizations that bring people and their power together to insist that people matter and deserve a voice…
Republicans promote an ignorance that delights in repeating history, even it results in deadly massacres.
The war is formalized in legal proceedings as the people are fighting back against Republican governors who prematurely eliminated the…
Sinema and the Supreme Court, empowered and enabled by the filibuster, have through the supposedly “democratic processes” Congress invented, extra-constitutionally,…
Again, we have to ask, where and in what shape would Americans and the U.S. economy be without the “radical…
On the whole, as a culture, we don’t speak much of the nation’s failure to extend democracy and civil rights…
Traditional Republican policies do not put country over party but rather turn back the clock on the American Revolution.
His belief that he is still president, or entitled to the presidency, is simply the most honest and overt expression…
Of course, these Republicans, strenuously posing as “principled,” remain quiet about their own election-stealing strategy, even as it sits ponderously…
Trumpism, in fact, has provided a fortuitous opening for the Republican Party establishment to salvage its own perfidious conservatism by…
The problem Cheney and the other never-Trumpers have with Trump and the current Republican Party is that it has exposed…
The point is that where Trump’s policies furthered death, Biden has affirmed life in his policies, calling out and challenging…
We must hold white supremacy accountable and, in doing so, take a hard look in the mirror as white Americans.
The message they send to Americans is clear: “Stay out of politics and leave the destruction of you and your…
We may be ready for this discussion as a nation, especially if Biden were to stop eschewing the socialist label…
We need to weave a cultural narrative that addresses the fact of the world we are making and helps us…
What we need to recognize is that when returned these verdicts will not just tell us about these individual cases;…
John Roberts somehow believed it was his role to usurp Congress’s authority and make this call. He decided, based on…
Biden has thrown down the gauntlet, showing he will fight against corporate autocracy and for workers’ democracy and welfare.
Building back better, which is how Biden characterizes his agenda of running government to address American’s needs, is, indeed, an…
This sweeping legislation isn’t just about suppressing the vote; it’s about prohibiting collective care and action, criminalizing any sense of…
The filibuster is another way Republicans turn reality and democracy and their heads to install a tyranny of the minority.
Meng’s insistence that “We will not let you take our voice” encapsulates the impetus behind the multiple but absolutely connected…
It may not sound that catchy to say, “Let’s make American Ok.” In reality, though, it’s an incredibly ambitious and…
Biden made many promises. First and foremost were those of leading us out of the pandemic and improving the lives…
The call to get teachers back into schools has been more insidious than earlier Republican calls to re-open the economy…
When President Joe Biden recently voiced support for unions, encouraging workers at Amazon currently involved in a vote to unionize…
For Biden to be effective abroad, he must set an example in his own nation. For him to set an…
Poetry can help us do that, as can a science supported by a poetic sensibility that seeks ever to bring…
While Republicans love to falsely claim that tax cuts for the wealthy pay for themselves through increased economic activity, in…
If Democrats want to save democracy and work toward unity, they must remove the obstacle of the filibuster.
In a small sentence, Biden made a huge point. Let’s serve people, not presidents or politics.
These critics seem to want blood for their own sport. The House impeachment managers were not playing such games. They…
Plaskett and peers such as Haaland, Ocasio-Cortez, and Velazquez are making it clear the Democratic Party is evolving toward a…
In listening to workers and science, Biden is providing an example of how we properly value lives and protect and…
The “big lie” is not unique to Trump but rather constitutes a long-standing Republican tradition and political practice that, far…
We keep hearing about splits in the Republican ranks between those who have sold their souls to the extremist arm…
In the summer of 1800, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved blacksmith, planned a slave insurrection in Richmond Virginia. Information about the…
Senate Republicans are now gearing up to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial on the specious rationale that putting a…
Too many in America, caught in throes of misinformation and conspiracy theories, are busy slaying mythical dragons rather than engaging…
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