We are about to be in for a long period of suffering in American and global politics at the hands of a deranged, reactionary president who will be up against little in the way of an opposition party.
Requiem for the Obama Coalition
The data is clear: the Democratic Party’s alienation from the working class extends across racial lines.
Bernie Sanders Is Right to Be Incensed at the Democrats
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders tore into the Democratic Party’s “big money interests and well-paid consultants” who abandoned working-class voters. Bernie was stating an obvious truth — one that Democratic leaders seem hell-bent on ignoring.
What Does Trump’s Win Mean for the NLRB?
Donald Trump will probably sack National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, who has been friendly to unions, on day one of his presidency.
Corporate Donors Guided Kamala Harris to Defeat
Rich donors like Mark Cuban boasted about their success in shaping Kamala Harris’s campaign and inducing her to ditch progressive economic policies. We shouldn’t let them shrug off responsibility for a disastrous defeat.
Election 2024: How Billionaires Torpedoed Democracy
Both parties’ 2024 campaigns claimed to be about “saving democracy.” Yet both parties ended up bought and paid for by billionaires.
What Can We Expect From a Second Trump Presidency?
From unleashing more dark money in politics to expanding fossil fuel production and assaulting reproductive rights, here’s some of what we can expect from a second Donald Trump administration.
It’s Happening Again
And until Democrats can find a way to win back some large chunk of working-class voters, Donald Trump’s successors will be favored in the next presidential election too.
Democratic Party Elites Brought Us This Disaster
The story that is about to be pushed hard is that Kamala Harris lost because she was too far left. It will be pushed because this is the Democratic establishment’s go-to explanation for all its failures.
The leading thinkers of Marxism stressed how important it was to govern in partnership with the peasantry. When communist states imposed collectivization by force, the results were disastrous.
If Harris Loses Today, This Is Why
To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.
Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Web Is Sowing Election Day Chaos
Right-wing activist groups with ties to conservative Supreme Court mastermind Leonard Leo have been on a voter-suppression blitz ahead of Election Day, pushing unfounded claims of noncitizens voting and filing lawsuits that have restricted voting rights.
The Problem With AI Is About Power, Not Technology
Artificial intelligence has the potential to seriously harm workers — not because of something inherent to the technology, but because bosses are in control of it.
The Uber Rival Putting a New Spin on Anti-Labor “Disruption”
In Washington, DC, rideshare service Empower is arguing that it shouldn’t be subject to the same labor and safety regulations as competitors like Uber. In doing so, it’s updating the antidemocratic “disruption” strategy that Uber pioneered.