For the sake of her political ambitions and her desire to protect the national security state, Liz Cheney ensured the January 6 committee’s final report wouldn’t cover law enforcement’s failures. It’s a huge boon to the Trumpist forces she claims to oppose.
Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, vetted after four years in the national limelight, who polls repeatedly show can demolish Trump. The media should lay to rest the dominant narrative that the United States is a center-right nation with a public committed to capitalism.
It’s not just the right thing to do — canceling student debt would be insanely popular and not very difficult. If Joe Biden’s supporters are serious about him winning, they should pressure him hard to do it.
The term “Orwellian” has long been a vacuous cliché, and now even allies of Trump are making use of it to deride their opponents. But George Orwell, a self-described democratic socialist, always belonged on the Left.
Capital’s third favorite party sounds a lot like its first.
With the rise of MAGA in the ranks of the GOP, the Right no longer needs a veneer of intellectualism. It no longer needs National Review.
Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will goad his liberal opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. Democrats don’t have to take the bait.
As much of the world celebrates a modest step towards peace in Korea, Western pundits seem to be panicking.
Pundits have been drawing the wrong comparisons for months: Hillary Clinton is a modern-day Richard Nixon.
A trucking magnate poured $250,000 into a pro-Trump super PAC. His company quickly saw a windfall from USPS contracts.
At the turn of the last century, Alexandra Kollontai identified the problem with elite feminism.
Zionist leaders have been downplaying antisemitic attacks in the US in order to cozy up to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is no lone wolf. Islamophobia can be found across the political mainstream.
Barack Obama spent eight years expanding the national security state. Now it belongs to Donald Trump.
Last week, in a particularly flagrant act of union busting, Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security canceled the union contract for the Transportation Security Administration’s 47,000 employees.
The US media's commercial nature is great for business, terrible for democracy.
Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire coup.
Bernie Sanders's nationally televised town hall spotlighted the type of politics we need to beat Trump.
The American border patrol regime was lethally effective long before Donald Trump came along.
John Bolton bragged this week that he’s “someone who has helped plan coups.” It was a brazen display of antidemocratic imperial arrogance, making clear that antidemocratic meddling is par for the course in US foreign policy.