The electoral college, the two-party trap, and the presidential election
It will soon be time to face the reality of the two-party system; either the Republicans or the Democrats will win the presidency.
America must renew its infrastructure or face decline
Politics as usual won't change things. It will take a wave election, a sweeping rebuke to the obstructionist Republican Congress, for anything to happen.
What’s the point of the Panama Papers?
The one percent have so successfully taken over the U.S. tax code and manipulated it that they've hidden billions of dollars right here at home.
Opium of the masses? Religion and 21st century socialism
There cannot be many socialist movements in the world today that are avowedly, militantly atheist. Those days are over.
Free speech, or safe spaces? Don't make students choose
We must challenge the problematic constructs in society that have driven young activists to seek sanctuary, and provide them with the room to create.
“Measures of despair”: Chicago desperate for action on violence and poverty
A poll just released depicts a city that is losing faith in its basic public institutions, from the police to the mayor's office.
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.
