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1. The war danger will grow if the tomorrow’s summit fails, and it could fail miserably. For many in Trump’s circle, this would be a welcomed end to this example of high stakes diplomacy. After all, it would allow them…
Listening yesterday to the late Gregg Allman singing Jackson Browne’s “These Days” reminded me of a conversation I had a few years ago, in which someone I knew said that a close friend of hers said in the closing days…
What is disturbing about Rosanne’s tweet is that she isn’t alone. The ugliness of her racist rhetoric is matched by the president and embraced, if not echoed, by significant numbers of white people. This talk, it is sometimes forgotten, is…
I post this every Memorial Day to recall my friends whose lives were cut short in the Vietnam War. This year though it registers with me in different way in that a president sits in the White House who, without…
Below is my presentation to a panel at the Left Forum in April 2005. The panel, entitled ‘Imaginings of Socialism,’ was moderated by the late Manning Marable and included Robin Kelley, Amiri Baraka, and Michael Albert. I have edited it…