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Despite a House investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection and criminal investigations in several states, former president Donald Trump remains the leader of the Republican Party and a powerful influence on its politics.
For the coming November 2022 primary election Trump has endorsed (...)
The American socialist Randolph Bourne wrote in 1918, “War is the health of the State.” It can also be salubrious for presidents. While COVID and Russia’s war on Ukraine have brought economic changes that affection millions of Americans, Biden is, nevertheless, gaining political support. A recent (...)
The Russian war on Ukraine has completely roiled American politics. Ultimately it could determine the future of both President Joseph Biden and former president Donald Trump, both of whom may be candidates for president in 2024. Both parties find the war has complicated their possibilities in (...)
The best way to help the people of Ukraine is to ignore the war promoters and choose the path of negotiation—for their sake and, with nuclear missiles on both sides of the Atlantic, for ours.
Saturday Night Live responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by devoting its “cold open,” which (...)
Nothing can excuse Putin’s invasion, but the hypocrisy coming out of Washington, D.C. could hardly be more striking.
Though U.S. and NATO policy in recent years has contributed to the current tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, responsibility rests unequivocally with the Kremlin. It is an illegal war (...)
The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill similarly notes that “the talking heads on cable news are almost drooling over the prospect of a ratings-boosting war.”
Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden on Friday joined global critics who are decrying news outlets for encouraging war with their coverage (...)
“Civil and voting rights is not only a Black issue. It is the touchstone for basic human rights that benefits all working-class people—Black, white, Latino, Asian and indigenous. It was won in a long bloody struggle over decades. That lesson is crucial today in fighting and defeating Trumpism.” (...)
The end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year is a convenient time to take stock of the causes of America’s decline since this year saw both Washington’s inglorious exit from Afghanistan after 20 years in the country that had served as the launching pad for its direct military intervention in (...)
As “our democracy” disintegrates, the House Select Committee “investigates” the J6 riot. Its report is promised “by November,” right when the barely-Democratic-majority Congress disappears…
The January 6, 2021 Trump riot at the U.S. capitol should have blown the right wing out of the water. A year (...)
The January 6 Capitol riot was the product of a decades-long attempt to destroy democracy in America — one that Democrats have never made an effort to stop by creating a government that is serious about the public interest.
Today is the one-year anniversary of the January 6 riot, which was the (...)
Alexander Keyssar says GOP disinformation, rise of dueling narratives don’t bode well for end to crisis of legitimacy any time soon
It’s been nearly a year since then-President Donald Trump exhorted rallygoers at a speech Jan. 6 near the White House to “demand” that members of Congress and Vice (...)
“Biden and the Democratic party have disappointed the members of the popular classes who had supported them against Trump and the Republican candidates in the fall of 2020.”
Some commentators thought that Joe Biden as president would mean a Keynesian turn in the US. The same hopes and illusions (...)
Panel on track to interview more than 300 witnesses, chair says, with more than 30,000 documents already turned over.
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has amassed a huge trove of evidence as it seeks to connect the Trump White House to the 6 January insurrection, (...)
Thanksgiving Day in America is a moment for national reflection since it raises the question: What do we have to be thankful for?
The question is more poignant after the COVID pandemic that has taken more than 780,000 lives and an economic crisis that saw a 32.4% decline in the GDP and (...)
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old vigilante, traveled on August 25 last year from his home in Antioch, Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin where he shot and killed two men and wounded a third during Black Lives Matter protests. there was found innocent of all charges on November 19, a verdict leading (...)
The Democratic Party and especially progressive legislators, including some members of the Democratic Socialists of America, have been put on the defensive after this month’s elections and votes on President Joseph Biden’s program in the Congress. In the elections, Republicans ran on issues of (...)
“The two senators who have paralyzed Biden’s legislative agenda are not moderates, but actually conservatives whose views are more in line with the Republican Party.”
Four months ago, President Joseph Biden put forward a proposal for a two-part $4.1 trillion-dollar legislative proposal that (...)
NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes in Jacobin arguing that athletes like Kyrie Irving aren’t making a “personal choice” by refusing the COVID vaccine — they’re jeopardizing the public health of all through their platforms.
I’m a huge fan of LeBron James, both as one of the greatest basketball (...)
As I write, the American media is filled with remembrances of the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, some of critical reflection, most in a patriotic vein, yearning for that moment of national unity. This is a fleeting interlude for a country consumed by internal (...)
The legal carte blanche signed days after the 2001 attacks is still used to authorise military action – just one way US society has been shaped, or corroded, by its backlash to terror
Over the past few weeks, the Biden administration has launched drone strikes against suspected terrorist (...)
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