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Emails appear to violate White House policy
Nika Knight
It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals. I am sketching out here opinions based on information, they may prove right, or may prove wrong, and they’re intended just to challenge and be part of a wider...
Tobias Stone
Cynicism and despair are among democracy’s worst enemies.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
Dear fellow JillB4 Hill folks and Berniecrats, a part of me really does not want to expend energy posting to all my center-left groups about the necessity of preventing Trump from winning the election. The necessary historical context in which to look at how detrimental a...
Monday morning saw Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former DNC chair, booed offstage at the Florida Democratic Delegation Breakfast; while it was transpiring, MSNBC's caption read that she was being cheered. A concise example of establishment media trying to force a positive...
I am Black. I capitalize Black and leave white lowercased. Sure, it’s the accepted spelling, but really I do it because it feels good. My family lived in Missouri, but my mother crossed state lines to birth me in Kansas. Missouri was a slave state. Kansas was free, and she...
R.L. Stephens
It's The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam
"Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy [...] the greatest and most savage slavery out of the extreme of freedom." Plato's The Republic.
A personal project filmed and edited at the 2016 Republic National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and...
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Supergroup Prophets of Rage descended upon Cleveland during the Republican National Convention to givea voice to those not represented in the political process.
5 min
This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
3 min
'When it comes to climate change, there’s precious little time for lesser evils; the physics—as scientists are quick to tell us—has put humanity on a deadline.' - Kate Aronoff
Jon Queally
In 1987, the United States Senate passed a resolution which acknowledged the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the resolution acknowledged the historical debt which the United States owes to...
Ojibwa
Both inner and outer change are essential for political transformation.
Michael Edwards
Nominating a political clone like Sen. Tim Kaine is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want a higher turnout
John Atcheson
They say things have to get worse before they get better. Well, here's our inflection point, if we seize it.
6 min
Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
13 min
Alex Jones and Roger Stone interrupted The Young Turks live coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
4 min
What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the Republican National Convention.
Laurie Penny
No matter who we vote for or who gets elected, the revolution must continue. These films remind us why.
Dear Democrats,
unknown Redditor
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralizing and monopolizing power and control. - Vandana Shiva
Yavor Tarinski
Around the time of President Obama's first inauguration, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some towns were getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest communities in the USA — and moved in.
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Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen...
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The attempted coup against Turkish President Erdoğan might have failed, but plenty of problems still await him.
3 min
Cleveland, the second poorest city in the US is set to hold the 2016 Republican convention. Since the housing crisis, the city has lost 17% of its residents, many due to predatory practices. Community organizers point out that Donald Trump advocated some of the practices that...
3 min
Eleanor Penny on all the ways the former Home Secretary has screwed over women.
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He did promise he would, so that helps to explain some of the anger and disappointment with his endorsement.
He's playing the long game. If Sanders had gone third party, split the votes and then Trump got elected, it would have divided the left and set back the momentum and gains the Sanders/progressive movement has made another 10 years. The center of America would blame the...
‘Economics is for everyone’, argues legendary economist Ha-Joon Chang in our latest mind-blowing RSA Animate. This is the video economists don’t want you to see! Chang explains why every single person can and SHOULD get their head around basic economics. He pulls back the...
12 min
There's been quite a lot of anger, disappointment and attention on Bernie's decision to endorse Clinton the last couple weeks. But I've started to believe this attention on Bernie has become a big distraction from the fact that the work was always going to be up to us. The...
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.
Ronan Burtenshaw with Paul Mason
If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.
17 min
In the aftermath of the Leave vote, people will need to find ways to calmly hear each other and bridge divides. Ultimately, we will need to unite against the corporate forces that undermine our wellbeing, not against immigrants who are victims as well.
Kristen Steele
If you're not worried about the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the Snoopers' Charter), you don't know enough about it. Visit Privacy International and join the campaign against new Government snooping powers.
2 min
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also."
Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might...
Zak Cheney Rice
Few journalists know the cruelty of government censorship as well as James Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, targeted for several major stories implicating criminality by the US war machine and its national security state.
Having just ended a...
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Lord Chilcot’s inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war has taken seven years and cost more than £10m. On Wednesday 6 July 2016 he will publish his report, which is expected to criticise former prime minister Tony Blair, the intelligence services, diplomats and the...
6 min
Within the last 30 years, while we’ve chased bogeymen overseas and here at home, our Democracy has fallen. We have been taken over; defeated; our voices neutered; our freedoms trampled; our democracy vanquished.
No invading force accomplished this; no jackboots echoed across...
John Atcheson
Reporter Pie is dismayed at the Remain's reaction to Brexit!
4 min
We talk a lot about Patriotism, especially around July 4th, but we need also to take to heart its five basic principles.
2 min
The decision to leave the EU is a disaster, but also a great opportunity for renewal
George Monbiot
Even in the best of times, escaping the grind for a small foreign island seems a preferred choice. And the 58 residents of Inishturk, a charming, heavily sheeped island off the west coast of Ireland definitely prefer it. But things may be changing for that sleepy island...
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Brexit win has much to teach Democrats about Trump threat, warns senator, and elites ignore frustrations of workers and the poor at their own peril
Jon Queally
It’s been a couple of days since the shocking referendum result, and it feels no better than it did on the night.
In fact, if anything, it feels worse. Many of the worst fears of Remain activists seem to be coming true. Reports of racism and xenophobia are soaring in the...
Alex Scrivener
Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism.
27 min
Puerto Rico’s massive debt has been discussed at length in Congress and the media, all omitting the most important fact: the history of being a colonial subject for over 500 years, still owned and controlled by the United States.
29 min
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking...
John Pilger
The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, and it looks like it may not be an especially smooth transition.
5 min
The country is in a very grave crisis. That’s what we should be talking about, not the internal travails of the Labour Party. The Brexiteers have no plan; they began backtracking on their promises within hours, which may well produce a firestorm of fury in the coming months...
Owen Jones
The Democratic Party deserves a reformation. It can either choose to embrace a more progressive agenda and modify its primary nomination rules, or risk losing in November. Because the process that made it possible for Hillary Clinton to clinch the nomination was anything but...
12 min
Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates
Lauren McCauley
"The uprising has begun. The question now is, who will lead it going forward?"
Lauren McCauley
Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them from default. Most governments, including ours, will probably comply.
Chris Hedges
Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations. Progressives must unite to stop the UK turning into a Thatcherite wasteland
Paul Mason
The following is a statement by the Left Unity Executive Committee following the outcome of the referendum vote in the UK:
Left Unity
Britain’s vote last night to leave the European Union will be a disaster for the climate — both physical and political — on both sides of the Atlantic.
Kate Aronoff
A working-class revolt has taken place, and frustration is spilling out in all sorts of directions. If Britain is to have a future, the escalating culture wars have to stop
Owen Jones
In 2013, President Obama, speaking at a fundraiser in Medina, Washington — home to a small community of wealthy donors — expressed a sentiment that has become all too common among Democratic Party liberals.
Jake Johnson
Things are changing. A major crack has appeared in the edifice of globalization, and the neoliberal order that has dominated the world’s economy since the end of World War II is now in danger.
Richard Eskow
Cameron resigns, markets roil, and right-wingers cheer as Brexit becomes reality
Nika Knight