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I read an article in Jacobin last night that was a diatribe against, of all people (or should I say candidates) Elizabeth Warren. Her candidacy, it was said, has no potential to end the “class de-alignment” that structures U.S. politics…
I’m afraid that if Bernie doesn’t secure the Democratic Party’s nomination (and Bernie would make a great candidate), some on the ideological left will take a pass on the general election. They may vote, but do little, practical speaking, in…
In the House Judiciary hearing last night the politics of resentment and grievance were on full display as GOP House members turned the impeachment of Trump into a concocted attack on Trump’s supporters. More than one said that it was…
These days the problem isn’t the “deep state,” but the takeover of the state by Trump and his gang of lunatics. It proceeds apace, despite the stubborn resistance inside and outside the state. We have an immediate chance to derail…
The center of gravity in the Democratic Party is shifting in a progressive direction, but it is far too early to conclude that the space for moderates — some say the center — has nearly evaporated as a broad current…