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Anybody but Bernie?

It is said that Wall Street Democrats hope to throw a wrench into Bernie Sanders’ second run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. No doubt Bernie has his detractors on the Street. And no doubt they will do whatever they…

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Is it enough to be right?

Carl Winter, a leader of the Communist Party in much of the 20th century, told me more than once that it isn’t enough to be right. He would then add that you have to be right in a way that…

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It’s a trap

It is silly to insist that Democrats, progressive and otherwise, should emphatically reject anti-socialism and anti-communism, as bandied about, for example, in Trump’s State of the Union speech and in his remarks in El Paso this week. And it is…

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A formula for victory

Thinking about the last shutdown, what ended it, while handing Trump a defeat, wasn’t the actions of one person or one group. It was the broad unity of the same coalition that has been resisting Trump since his Inauguration. Herein…

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The danger of a declaration of emergency

With a bipartisan committee coming up with a compromise bill that doesn’t include Trump’s demand for a border wall, but keeps the government open, it looks like Trump might declare a national emergency and order the building of a wall.…