Left Strategy 2016: A narrow defeat of Trump's racism is not enough
The perilous consequences of a Trump presidency should be a wake-up call for the left. The possibility of dealing the racist right a major blow should energize and excite us.
Socialism: Only practical hope, not narrow fantasies, need apply
Any kind of socialism that isn't working to combat racism and sexism isn't being practical at all, not to mention realistic.
Hillary Clinton, Frederick Douglass, and imagination: A lesson in dialectics
Douglass could have despaired over Lincoln's inconsistent anti-slavery credentials, but he didn't. The left should take a page from his book for 2016.
How to weather the next few years of climate change
Our world is changing as we fiddle with climate change denier nonsense while watching the oceans rise, acidify and lose oxygen, and extreme drought and weather slap us.
