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Insider: White House was Warned March was Illegal

The White House had been warned about Alexander and his dangerous plan to move on the Capitol. The leaders of…

5 years ago

Don’t Let President Biden ‘Make Us the Dupes of Our Hopes’

How far Biden can be pushed in better directions will depend on how well progressives and others who want humanistic…

5 years ago

HOUSING IS A RIGHT. DURING A PANDEMIC, IT’S ALSO A FIGHT.

California is the richest state in the United States, so it's easy to forget that its rural poverty and substandard…

5 years ago

How To Defeat The Hard Right

Laws already on the books were broken by all and sundry. The perpetrators at all levels must, therefore, be brought…

5 years ago

Denouncing Republican Evils Can’t Do Much for the Biden Presidency Without Demanding Progressive Policies

In early 2009, we were told to give a break to President Obama. Wall Streeters went into the Cabinet, big…

5 years ago

2020 in the Rearview Mirror

Careening from crisis to crisis I would be happy if I never had to write about Donald J. Trump ever…

5 years ago

Trump’s Screechy Swan Song: Lining Up Ugly Ducklings for Biden

Donald Trump’s last-minute call for a $2,000 stimulus check — quickly passed by House Democrats, but blocked by Senate Republicans…

5 years ago

In 2021, the Best Way to Fight Neofascist Republicans Is to Fight Neoliberal Democrats

When Democrats fail to offer a competing populist avenue, their party is seen as aligned with the status quo. And…

5 years ago

‘We want them infected.’ ‘There is no other way.’

Private emails pushed public apathetic COVID-19 response “There is no other way,” then-White House science adviser Paul Alexander wrote in…

5 years ago

Taking Back the Flag from False Patriots

Sedition and betrayal — the grift that keeps grifting I’ve simply had enough of the false patriot, neo-Nazi, Proud Boy…

5 years ago