New Center of Gravity for the Resistance

COVID-19 is heightening the life-and-death consequences of economic, racial and other forms of inequality

However severe the current crisis, and whatever the outcome in November, big changes are coming in how the U.S. economy functions, how this country is ruled and its role in the world

As we approach Super Tuesday, three numbers capture the stakes, the dynamics and the limits of the 2020 election.

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

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

It twists, it turns, it bounces in unexpected directions. How do we make sense of Trump’s foreign policy? Is there a logic…

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