When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent BBC interview, they “argued that in those circumstances the people with economic power in society,
Biden’s post-election pep talk was pathetic — Democrats must prepare to fight
After years of serving as enablers for a faltering President Joe Biden, Democrats in Congress must finally break away from his leadership — for the sake of their party and the survival of democracy in this country.
Trump’s Victory and Elite Power Over the Democratic Party
A pair of quotes, separated by eight years, spotlight a chronic political mentality at the top of the Democratic Party:
“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”
Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza
The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page — “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” — was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for Trump to be defeated,
60 Years After Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy Ad,” the Silence on Nuclear War Is Dangerous
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on NBC.
In CNN Interview, Harris Dodged Gaza Genocide and Damaged Her Election Prospects
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies that enable Israel to continue with mass murder and genocide in Gaza.
Biden’s Convention Speech Made Absurd Claims About His Gaza Policy
An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is acutely relevant to how President Biden talked about Gaza during his speech at the Democratic convention Monday night.
The Smearing of Cori Bush for Being Truthful About the Gaza War
Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Congresswoman Cori Bush under a headline declaring that “anti-Israel comments make her unfit for reelection.”
Josh Shapiro Would Be a Dangerous Choice for Harris Running Mate
Kamala Harris has gained strong support as the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. Putting Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on the ticket would likely fracture that support.