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In a recent article, Robert Reich writes: “Does Hillary Clinton understand that the biggest divide in American politics is no longer between the right and the left, but between the anti-establishment and the establishment? “I worry she doesn’t – at…
Below is a comment I made to someone who argued that “although elections are important, the mass movement is more important.” This is a very poor way to frame things at this moment, or any moment for that matter. Don’t…
The 1 per cent vs the 99 per cent – the slogan of the Occupy movement – is a broad, big tent notion that mirrors an objective economic reality in which the lion’s share of the wealth created by labor…
From an earlier post on my blog (samwebb.org) on the rise of Trump: Which brings me back to Trump. If he isn’t a fascist, where does he sit on the political spectrum? Trump in my view is a right wing…
Arguments to persuade white workers not to vote for Trump that focus only on economic policy are misguided in my opinion. No less important is to wonder aloud if working families and their children will be well served if the…