277 Million Boston Bombings

The horror of Boston should be a reminder that the choice of weaponry can be in itself an act of evil. “Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim” is the way The New York Times defined the hideousness of the weapons used, and President Obama made clear that “anytime bombs are used to...

Robert Scheer · 5,508 views · 75%

After Last Week's Tragedies, What Can Be Said That Hasn't Been Said Before?

I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile being killed by the police. Last night, I wanted to say something that hasn't been said a hundred times before. It finally dawned on me that there...

Michelle Alexander · 5,449 views · 88%

The Kochs & the XL Pipeline: "I want my fair share, and that's ALL OF IT."

According to the transcript of the secretly recorded tape, Charles Koch was chuckling like a six-year old. Koch was having a hell of a laugh over pilfering a few hundred dollars’ worth of oil from a couple of dirt-poor Indians on the Osage Reservation. Why did Koch, worth...

Greg Palast · 5,444 views · 75%

What If We Stay Home? The Planet’s Future Depends on Mass Economic Disobedience

Have you noticed the memes circulating about the end of normal?

Josh Adler · 5,301 views · 75%

The 'Sanders Democrat' Is Paving the Way for the Radical Left

In 2006, when I told people that I was a socialist, they looked at me like I was crazy. To be a socialist was to be on the margins of American political life, wedded to a lost cause that disappointed millions. It was the political equivalent of being a Milli Vanilli fan. A...

Bhaskar Sunkara · 5,241 views · 88%

Why Popular Assemblies Sweeping the Country Are Building Blocks of the Resistance

From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.

Sarah Lazare · 5,239 views · 100%

Bernie Sanders Would Be Crazy to Drop Out Now. It Would Also Be Bad for Biden.

Since Super Tuesday, one after the other, the arms of the corporate media and Democratic establishment have been calling for Bernie Sanders to drop out. While it is true that his path to victory has greatly narrowed (there’s no sugarcoating it), right now is not the time for...

Saib Bilaval · 5,177 views · 75%

Ignoring Bernie Is Privilege

Some of my progressive friends still refuse to support Bernie Sanders. They say he’s sleeping with the enemy by going for the Democratic Party nomination, and that he’s too soft on Israel and guns: he's not a woman; he's not black. They think he should be more pure, that the...

Tim Anderson · 5,153 views · 94%

Michael Moore To Rachel Maddow On Wisconsin: 'This Is War' (Video)

Jack Mirkinson · 5,040 views · 100%

Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry

Resource scarcity and competition to dominate the Eurasian energy corridors are behind Russian militarism and US interference

Nafeez Ahmed · 5,018 views · 88%

Who's Really to Blame for Fake News? Look in the Mirror, America.

Consider for a moment the oxymoronic concept of “fake news,” which we have been hearing so much about lately. This isn’t your typical disinformation or misinformation — generated by the government, or foreign adversaries, or corporations — to advance an agenda by confusing...

Neal Gabler · 4,965 views · 100%

Towards a Transformative Anti-Fascism

The Relevance of Radicalized Peacebuilding to Antifa Praxis

Emmi Bevensee · 4,885 views · 100%

Bernie or Bust? No, It's Justice or Bust

Can we actually achieve a more just America as one of the outcomes of this political revolution? Yes. I believe we can.

Donna Smith · 4,855 views · 88%

Open Letter to Bernie, the Squad and Progressive US Lawmakers: State Repression of the Farmers’ Movement in India

An open letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen Ed Markey, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rep. AOC, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Rep. Cori Bush, fmr Sen. Nina Turner, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Rep. Ro Khanna...

Saib Bilaval · 4,779 views · 75%

America's Real Foreign Policy: Global Corporatization by Force

Whose security is the U.S

Noam Chomsky · 4,765 views · 100%

Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived

“The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.” —Noam...

Bruce E. Levine · 4,713 views · unrated

Why the United States Is at War With Itself

The End of History is just the beginning

Nafeez Ahmed · 4,699 views · 100%

Crucifying Julian Assange

What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.

Chris Hedges · 4,368 views · 75%

Realize Your Potential: Occupy is a Consciousness-Expanding Phenomenon

The global Occupy movement is much more than an economic or political movement. Occupy is a consciousness-expanding phenomenon.

David DeGraw · 4,250 views · 100%

Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?

In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.

John W. Whitehead · 4,154 views · 75%

Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria

Evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” is “no slam dunk,” U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet.

David Swanson · 4,140 views · 88%

'God Have Mercy on Your Souls': GOP Passes Cruel, Destructive Trumpcare Bill

'By rushing this bill through Congress, Republicans are creating a manufactured crisis that will devastate millions of families'

Lauren McCauley · 4,125 views · unrated

Rising up to the Trump Moment: We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

The Trump victory is devastating. Devastating for communities of color, immigrants, women, Muslims and queer communities. Devastating for us. Trump has given new voice to deeply rooted white supremacy, gender violence, xenophobia and hatred. Hatred of everything that we are...

Dawn Phillips · 4,033 views · 50%

Snowden Coverage: If US Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?

The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets—especially TV news—that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in...

Jeff Cohen · 3,939 views · 75%

Don't Occupy Wall Street, Ditch It!

I personally support the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, especially the spotlight it has cast on the shocking level of inequality in our country. But the movement oddly conveys a very mainstream message that Wall Street can and should be fixed. Just clean up our existing...

Michael Shuman · 3,897 views · unrated

The Pimps of War

The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.

Chris Hedges · 3,873 views · 88%

Beyond Trump: How the US Went off the Rails

Trump is a big problem. But he's not the cause of our problems.

John Atcheson · 3,856 views · unrated

Missile Attack on Syria Is a Salute to 'Russiagate' Enthusiasts—Whether They Like It or Not

"The latest U.S. air attack on Russia’s close ally Syria was as much politically aimed at Moscow as at Damascus."

Norman Solomon · 3,821 views · unrated

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

As a nation, we have a tendency to sentimentalize cultural icons in death in a way that renders them non-threatening, antiseptic and easily digested by a society with an acute intolerance for anything controversial, politically incorrect or marred by imperfection.

John W. Whitehead · 3,811 views · 100%

The Fourth Estate in Flames: On the US Media's Award-Winning War Propaganda

A war-weary American public that a year ago resoundingly rejected US military intervention in Syria to overthrow the Assad regime now is rallying behind the use of force to destroy the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). In just three months, from June to September, support for...

Medea Benjamin · 3,804 views · 100%

Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent

Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism – 'disposition matrix' – the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim

Glenn Greenwald · 3,717 views · 100%

Ron Unz on Our American Pravda & Sibel Edmonds Case

“These three stories—the anthrax evidence, the McCain/POW revelations, and the Sibel Edmonds charges—are the sort of major exposés that would surely be dominating the headlines of any country with a properly-functioning media. But almost no American has ever heard of them.”

Sibel Edmonds · 3,711 views · 75%

The Cult of Trump

Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical...

Chris Hedges · 3,663 views · 79%

The 6-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America

One of the themes of the superb writing of Henry Giroux is that more and more Americans are becoming "disposable," recognized as either commodities or criminals by the more fortunate members of society. There seems to be a method to the madness of winner-take-all capitalism...

Paul Buchheit · 3,615 views · 100%

The Other Super Power Is Winning

It’s not Russia. It’s not al Qaeda. It’s not Bashar al-Assad. The other super power is the people of the world — and the people of, but not by or for, the United States.

David Swanson · 3,610 views · 75%

The Elephant in the Room: Militarism

I spent years as a political pundit on mainstream TV – at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. I was outnumbered, outshouted, red-baited and finally terminated. Inside mainstream media, I saw that major issues were not only dodged, but sometimes not even acknowledged to exist.

Jeff Cohen · 3,561 views · 88%

The Washington Post's 'Fake News' Guilt

The "fake news" theme has captivated The Washington Post and the mainstream U.S. media so much that it is stooping to McCarthyistic smears against news outlets that don’t toe the State Department’s propaganda line

Robert Parry · 3,498 views · 100%

Occupy Everyone: Making Revolutionaries, Not a Revolution

If the dynamic of a diverse safe space in which people dismantle oppressions through conflict resolution is at the root of Occupy's transformative potential, then perhaps there's not a distinct formula that can be reproduced, but simply spread - a culture - that people can...

Zachary Bell · 3,433 views · 75%

We Don't Need Them

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no reason to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves, like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose, they could blow the party to pieces tomorrow morning. ...

Joe Carpenter · 3,386 views · 100%

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann · 3,381 views · 100%

Greece's Capitulation Reveals Deep Conflicts within Eurozone

Rather than resolving the euro crisis, Tsipras’ unexpected U-turn has revealed deep conflicts among the creditors, who now fight over how to respond.

Jerome Roos · 3,186 views · 94%

Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side

Self-righteous, public shaming of kids is almost certain to backfire.

Ruth Conniff · 3,183 views · 75%

DNC Leak Reveals Party Insiders Promised Access to Obama in Exchange for Cash

Emails appear to violate White House policy

Nika Knight · 3,143 views · unrated

Glenn Greenwald: Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators

The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways:

Glenn Greenwald · 3,126 views · 100%

America Has a Republican Problem - and the Media Is Partly to Blame

Donald Trump is a distraction from the fact that the mainstream media has pretended the GOP is a normal party with values just to the right. Now the country is paying the price.

Neal Gabler · 3,120 views · unrated

Con Vs. Con

During the presidential election cycle, liberals display their gutlessness. Liberal organizations, such as MoveOn.org, become cloyingly subservient to the Democratic Party. Liberal media, epitomized by MSNBC, ruthlessly purge those who challenge the Democratic Party...

Chris Hedges · 3,113 views · unrated

Pro-TTIP Report Passes Vote in European Parliament

Disappointment reigns as ISDS-lite gets the nod in Strasbourg

Guy Taylor · 3,073 views · 94%

Obama's Libya lies and how the United States ambassador really died

Critics of the Libya intervention warned that dropping bombs in a country and killing civilians would produce blowback in the form of those who would then want to attack the US.

Glenn Greenwald · 3,034 views · unrated

A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine

How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell

Tom Engelhardt · 3,030 views · unrated

When Image Trumps Ideology: How JFK Created the Template for the Modern Presidency

Even at John F. Kennedy’s centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time – a man who, in our mind’s eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.

Steven Watts · 3,005 views · unrated

Want Money Out Of Politics? Put Some Money Into Politics With Lawrence Lessig's Super PAC

The Harvard professor has already raised $1 million from thousands of smaller donors who he's asking to spend big money to make sure that no one can spend big money again--and instead politicians have to listen to regular people.

Sydney Brownstone · 2,928 views · 75%

Black Americans Have Always Lived Under Police State Fascism

The word fascism has reappeared in the American popular lexicon thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The word is used to keep progressive Democrats in a state of fear should he win, but its existence in this country right now is rarely discussed.

Margaret Kimberley · 2,779 views · unrated

The Important Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ Is ‘Democratic’

Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t talking about making America into Cuba or Venezuela. He’s talking about extending social guarantees like those offered in other advanced countries, such as Denmark and Sweden.

Jesse Jackson · 2,760 views · unrated

Trump the Magician: The Real Function of Racism and Xenophobia

Donald Trump is a con artist. He is practicing one of the oldest tricks in the book, borrowing a page from every magician who seeks to fool and dazzle their audience by distracting their attention at a critical moment in the act. Trump’s trick of choice has a long history in...

Brian Becker · 2,720 views · 88%

Oil Fuels War and Terrorists Like Isis. The Climate Movement Can Bring Peace

We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil

Rebecca Solnit · 2,708 views · 88%

I'm an Anarchist and I Vote

Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where...

Ryan Conrad · 2,632 views · 38%

Why Don't We Feel as Burned by the Panama Papers as We Do by Donald Trump?

Outrage abounds these days, but the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention

Joe Brewer · 2,617 views · 100%

Americans Agree: It's Corporate Power That's in Our Way

There is widespread recognition among politicians and pundits that Americans are sharply divided by party on virtually all of the big questions facing our country. Everyone knows this is just the way things are, and it’s why we have gridlock in Congress. But here’s one...

Robert Weissman · 2,589 views · 100%

Brazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption - and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy

The multiple, remarkable crises subsuming Brazil are now garnering substantial Western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country and eighth-largest economy; its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro, is the host of this yea

Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda · 2,589 views · 100%

Naomi Klein’s “Hard-Money” Ideas Undermine Her Laudable Climate Action Goals

2014 Book Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Michael Hoexter · 2,564 views · 75%

President Jill Stein?

"Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason."- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz

Carl Gibson · 2,548 views · unrated

Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests

Whenever mass protests of any kind kick off, defenders of the status quo immediately accuse protesters as being duped by “outside agitators.” Don’t fall for it — the lie of the outside agitator is designed to weaken protests and downplay our widespread anger at injustice.

Glenn Houlihan · 2,529 views · unrated

The Climate Crisis Is Here But Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Know

What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance.

George Monbiot · 2,502 views · 88%

The Divided States of Hypocrisy: Americans, Prisoners of Language.

We The People, in general, are a divided people. Pick any topic or issue, and there is bound to be some heated version of "Us and Them"- if not outright conflict over it. We seem to excel at creating staunch support bases for even the most unlikely of viewpoints: White...

Michael Emero · 2,484 views · 75%

CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked

Yesterday, the US House prepared for the debate on the privacy-invading "cybersecurity" bill called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The rules committee hearing was the last stop before the bill is voted on by the full House.

Kurt Opsahl and Rainey Reitman and Mark Jaycox · 2,430 views · 75%

Sanders Says He 'Welcomes Hatred of Crooks Who Destroyed Our Economy' After Blankfein Suggests He May Vote Trump Over Bernie

"I don't like that at all," the billionaire former Goldman Sachs CEO said of Sanders' wealth tax proposal.

Jake Johnson · 2,326 views · unrated

My Special Place in Hell, Courtesy of Unfettered Greed

'Women all over the country can write about the damage done to their lives by the rigged economy and the special place in hell they work to escape daily when trying to fight back.'

Donna Smith · 2,322 views · 96%

The End of the "End of History"

In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.

Eli Friedman and Andi Kao · 2,317 views · unrated

Runaway Inequality Elected Trump. Here's How It Can Help Defeat Him

One of the best forms of resistance will be our demand for a more equitable and humane economy

Les Leopold · 2,293 views · 88%

A Letter I Wish Progressive Groups Would Send to Their Members

Dear Progressives,

Norman Solomon · 2,226 views · unrated

Before the White Race Was Invented

Theodore W. Allen The Invention of the White Race Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control Volume Two: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (London and New York: Verso, 1994 and 1997). THERE ARE FOUR main theses advanced by Theodore Allen in his...

Jonathan Scott · 2,223 views · unrated

A Cancer that Produces Racism

Mass incarceration and bloated police departments are major incubators of some of the most reactionary ideas in society, writes Todd Chretien. IN THE wake of the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island, tens of thousands have marched, occupied city halls and...

Todd Chretien · 2,067 views · unrated

The Blurb Heard Around the World

It's the kind of publicity every author dreams of: In the heat of the 2016 primaries, a leading candidate for president mentions your new book in a nationally-televised debate. Unfortunately, it involved a Democrat, attacking her Democratic opponent for endorsing it.

Bill Press · 2,048 views · 75%

Shutdown Coverage Fails Americans

U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a "bitterly divided" Congress that "failed to reach agreement" (

Dan Froomkin · 1,988 views · unrated

Think the Women's March Wasn't Radical Enough? Do Something About It

It might not have been as black, brown or working class as many might have liked. But criticizing it from the sidelines doesn’t help anyone

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · 1,982 views · unrated

Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Review – The Best Criticism of Identity Politics

This riveting and inspiring study of race and class in the age of Trump argues that an emphasis on identity should lead to one on solidarity

Ben Tarnoff · 1,976 views · 62%

Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside

Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. “I want you to panic,” the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly...

Catherine Tumber · 1,961 views · 75%

Decrying System That Favors 'War and the Wealthy,' Poor People's Campaign Unveils Agenda to Combat Poverty, Racism, and Militarism

"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."

Jake Johnson · 1,918 views · unrated

Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal

Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone · 1,905 views · 75%

'Toward a Brighter More Just Future': 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders

"When so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election."

Jon Queally · 1,875 views · unrated

The Limits of Anti-Racism

Antiracism is a favorite concept on the American left these days. Of course, all good sorts want to be against racism, but what does the word mean exactly?

Adolph Reed Jr. · 1,840 views · 88%

Obama Will Launch a Huge Propaganda Blitz -- and May Attack Syria Even If He Loses the Vote in Congress

Grassroots pressure has forced President Obama to seek approval from Congress for an attack on Syria. But Obama is hell-bent on ordering a missile assault on that country, and he has two very important aces in the hole.

Norman Solomon · 1,833 views · unrated

Why Labor Day Matters

Here’s an experiment to try this holiday weekend. Quiz your friends, family and acquaintances on the meaning of Labor Day. You might be surprised by the answers you hear. To many, the true meaning of Labor Day has been unfortunately lost―it’s merely a three-day vacation...

Ralph Nader · 1,742 views · 75%

Deconstructing an Example of Establishment Media Reportage: the Boston Globe Publishes Not-So Subtle Hit Piece on Sanders and Warren

Couched in establishment lingo and perspective, relying upon shallow but credible-seeming misinformation, the Boston Globe reveals itself to be no ally of the people or the revolution.

Liam Miller · 1,726 views · 75%

Against the Climate March Cynics

Paul D'Amato answers the objections of several left-wing writers who critiqued the People's Climate March. HUNDREDS OF thousands of people--some estimates ranged above 300,000--gathered in New York City September 21 to protest government inaction on climate change, ahead of...

Paul D'Amato · 1,667 views · 88%

Is Voting Third Party for President in 2016 a Good Idea? Here are a Few Things to Consider

This does not preclude voting for third parties at the local and state levels, which is where third party power needs to grow before a presidential campaign could win.

gblues · 1,665 views · -6%

The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage

In one of comedian Chris Rock's routines, he observes: "You know what that means when someone pays you a minimum wage? You know what your boss is trying to say? 'Hey, if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.'"

Mark Vorpahl · 1,625 views · unrated

Big Union Leaders Betray Sanders and Workers

Around a conference table inside the large Washington headquarters of the AFL-CIO, a furious exchange occurred between labor union presidents. It was late February and up for decision by the Executive Council was whether the country’s principal labor federation was going to...

Ralph Nader · 1,591 views · 94%

Whether Trump or Clinton Wins the US Election, What Follows Is up to Us

When the polls close, a new battle will begin – to resist a racist climate denier, or to force a centrist Democrat to deliver genuinely progressive change

Rebecca Solnit · 1,572 views · unrated

American Exceptionalism, American Innocence, and What Comes Next: An Interview With Danny Haiphong

The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on...

Colin Jenkins · 1,558 views · 75%

The Staying Power of Racism After Charlottesville

Many of us spiritual progressives have been in deep grief for the loss of life of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a Nazi fanatic who also wounded 19 other anti-racist activists. We are also in grief about the ways racism continues to flourish on so many levels in the U.S....

Rabbi Michael Lerner · 1,513 views · unrated

Workers Should Be in Charge

Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.

Peter Gowan · 1,509 views · unrated

Building the New America

I: The American Reality America was founded on a dream. It was a dream that all people, from all the war-torn and disease-ridden corners of the earth, could come to this new-age Promised Land and build a common future side-by-side. It was half history, and half mythology...

Matthew R. Bishop · 1,389 views · 98%

Education, Jobs and Capitalism

American capitalism has a hate-love relationship with the nation’s schools. On the “hate” side is a stream of complaints from business leaders and organizations about the many students, particularly in city schools, who fail achievement tests, are high school dropouts or, if...

Gerald Coles · 1,333 views · unrated

On February 6th Antarctica Was Warmer Than Orlando, or Why I Support Only Sanders

Even if we elect a better-than-Trump, half-measures candidate, we're still not better off. Our grandchildren will curse us all the same.

Thomas Neuburger · 1,304 views · unrated

This Feminist Is #Still Sanders

I write as a feminist, a well-seasoned historian of American women, and a die-hard supporter of Bernie Sanders. Long-time colleagues disparage my loyalty to the Sanders campaign and chastise me, along with him, for not celebrating Hillary Clinton’s landmark achievement as the...

Mari Jo Buhle · 1,289 views · unrated

I Support Bernie Sanders, and I'm Not Stupid or Unrealistic

Today I read for maybe the 10,000th time an assertion that supporters of Bernie Sanders are unrealistic, that Bernie Sanders supporters will all be disappointed if they elect him because he won’t be able to bring the change he’s promising, that Bernie Sanders’ policies will...

Cody Gough · 1,268 views · 100%

Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back

“I am not suggesting that white racism alone explains Trump’s victory. Nor am I dismissing the white working class’s very real economic grievances. It is not a matter of disaffection versus racism or sexism versus fear. Rather, racism, class anxieties, and prevailing gender...

Robin D.G. Kelley · 1,261 views · unrated

The Relentless Factories of Hatred, Fear and Lies: on the Global Ultraconservative and Reactionary Waves

There are two undeclared wars on the vast majority of the world's population, the destitute popular classes and the impoverished middle classes. Such double war requires a vast, ideological-mental industrial complex sprawled across the planet.

Boaventura De Sousa Santos · 1,198 views · 69%

Biden Vs. Trump: Are We In or Out?

The next few months are decision time for the left.

Whitney Maxey · 1,183 views · unrated

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