Donald Trump’s post-acquittal, gangster-style revenge campaign underscores the dangers from a President who can act with impunity and the high stakes in next November’s balloting
Max Elbaum
It’s no accident that on the same day the Senate voted not to hear any witnesses in its sham impeachment trial the Trump administration announced it was adding six countries, including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, to its restrictive travel ban
The top strategists of Trumpism see an authoritarian state whose mass support is built on a promise to preserve “white Christian America” as necessary to implement their full program of fossil fuel-driven, no-limits capitalism and a militarized ‘America First’ global hegemony
One of positive things this moment is that the question of power has moved central to discussion on the left. …, we need to build our own organizations and strengthen alignment and cooperation between them
We need a left that is in the thick of the battle, that galvanizes a base that others cannot or will not reach, and that helps keep diverse forces focused on the main immediate enemy
The perilous consequences of a Trump presidency should be a wake-up call for the left
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First the execution, then the trial"; "Stop them if they look illegal, round ’em up and deport ’em"; "Lock ’em up and…
Last month the prime example of Washington‘s hypocrisy was John McCain’s remark about Russia‘s military action in Georgia: "In the 21st century,…