Against CDC guidelines and health experts’ urgings, the DNC and Joe Biden’s campaign urged Americans to vote earlier this month — undoubtedly spreading coronavirus further. But don’t expect any accountability for it, from mainstream media or anyone else.
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.
Coronavirus isn’t only exposing Donald Trump’s incompetence. The crisis is laying bare the consequences of the neoliberal economic agenda corporate Democrats have been pushing for decades.
Looking beyond Joe Biden’s unexpectedly modest victory, the 2020 election was a historic failure for the Democratic Party. On the other hand, despite some painful hitches coming out of this campaign season, the Left has reason to be hopeful.
The CIA is rebranding as a rational, progressive arm of the US state. And some liberals are buying it.
Twenty-one members of Congress last week called for lifting US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, including most of the Squad. The pushback is needed: sanctions are a cruel economic weapon that hurts average people — and has spurred a surge of economic refugees.
Have we ever seen anything like this election season's mixture of anger and cluelessness? Yes, at the local zoning board.
A Vox writer sets out to prove social-democratic policies aided the far right. He fails.
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
Open contempt for the progressive left, speeches from Republicans, and a liberal class hopelessly out of touch with the moment, this week was 2016’s DNC all over again — and the Democrats are at risk of the same result: failing to defeat Donald Trump.
Without a radical change in its relationship to working-class voters, the Democratic Party is hurtling toward doom.
The Democratic Party has become, improbably, the preferred party of American capital. But in doing so, it’s lost more and more of its working-class base.
If Kamala Harris really wants to show she is ready to turn a new page in the campaign against Donald Trump, it’s obvious who her choice as running mate should be: Bernie Sanders.
US officials suggested that Israel would have to shift to a “lower-intensity” campaign in Gaza from the new year. But Joe Biden is still unwilling to apply any serious pressure, even if his support for Israel’s war threatens to hand victory to Donald Trump.
To defeat Trump's nightmarish vision, we can't keep clinging to liberalism's dead or dying ideas.
Don’t let Nancy Pelosi tell you what’s mainstream. Voters want politics that stands for something — not more centrist equivocating.
In an interview, writer Thomas Frank discusses how populism brought together workers, farmers, and all those struggling against the wealthy for a more egalitarian society — and why that’s made it a dirty word for the elite, both in the 1890s and today.
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.
What does the stock market do for workers’ wages? Nothing.
Today's tumultuous political environment resembles the Gilded Age more than the 1930s.