https://znetwork.org/author/davidsirota/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:43:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/davidsirota/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democrats-must-stop-enabling-ice/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democrats-must-stop-enabling-ice/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:08:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294017 As Immigration and Customs Enforcement terrorizes cities and literally murders people, a tycoon-funded Democratic think tank is criticizing those saying lawmakers should reduce the agency’s funding — all while Democrats provide enough congressional votes to keep ICE flush with cash. 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As President Bill [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ruling-class-is-uncancelable/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-harris-lost-the-working-class/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-harris-lost-the-working-class/#respond Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:52:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275086 For liberals, Donald Trump’s victory this week prompts adjectives like “scary,” “terrifying,” “depressing,” and “demoralizing.” But one word it should not evoke is this: “surprising.” In a downwardly mobile country, Democrats’ rejection of working-class politics — and the party’s open hostility to populist politicians in its midst — was always going to end up creating prime political conditions for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-harris-lost-the-working-class/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/open-celebration-of-the-oligarchy-both-dems-gop-sucked-up-to-billionaires-in-2024-election/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/open-celebration-of-the-oligarchy-both-dems-gop-sucked-up-to-billionaires-in-2024-election/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:46:58 +0000 In the wake of the reelection of Donald Trump, some of the richest people in the world saw their net worths soar as stock prices rapidly shot up. “What was different about this election was how central billionaires were in the entire political discourse,” says The Lever‘s David Sirota, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the outsized role [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/open-celebration-of-the-oligarchy-both-dems-gop-sucked-up-to-billionaires-in-2024-election/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bidens-departure-presents-an-opportunity-for-the-democrats/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bidens-departure-presents-an-opportunity-for-the-democrats/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:59:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269648 Joe Biden has never been the greatest orator or had the strongest political backbone, but he has always displayed one important skill throughout his decades in office: representing the center of the Democratic Party, wherever that center may be at any given time. 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Eight months before [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cargo-giant-in-baltimore-crash-silenced-whistleblowers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dems-old-formula-is-a-big-2024-risk/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dems-old-formula-is-a-big-2024-risk/#respond Sun, 14 May 2023 15:46:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246047 The Democratic Party’s political class has developed a rote formula over the last decade: ignore rather than channel discontent among the party’s rank-and-file voters, prevent competitive primaries where those voters can act on their dissatisfaction, and then hope to eke out general election victories on a wave of voter disgust with the Republican Party’s freakshow [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dems-old-formula-is-a-big-2024-risk/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/big-tech-is-taking-cues-from-big-tobaccos-playbook/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/big-tech-is-taking-cues-from-big-tobaccos-playbook/#respond Tue, 09 May 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1245757 Alongside tireless political lobbying, Big Tech has infiltrated the academic institutions studying and often promoting AI — with little regard for the potentially catastrophic downsides. 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