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Yesterday Trump’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz made the astonishing and dangerous claim at the impeachment trial that a president could not be removed from office for demanding political favors if he believed his re-election was in the national interest. It makes…
This is an excerpt from a presentation I made to the Communist Party’s convention in 2014. It still retains relevance: “I mention this because some on the left – even in our own party – are ready, if not to…
Elections can shift the balance of political power in favor of democracy and social progress and the upcoming one surely fits into this category. And this is so no matter which of the Democrats is elected. The degree of the…
So far the Democrats are winning the battle for public opinion. And that is critical in this election year. The accepted wisdom not that long ago was the Trump would come out of the Senate trial with a head of…
I think that we should retire the term neoliberal. It becomes a poor substitute for a concrete analysis of existing conditions and trends. In too many instances, it leads to narrowly constructed politics, something that we don’t need at this…