Political Ideologies

Democratic political consultant David Plouffe

The Dead Hand of the Democratic Consultant Class The Dead Hand of the Democratic Consultant Class

Breaking the grip of grifters who refuse to learn or leave won’t be easy. But it is essential to effectively opposing the coming plutocracy.

Dec 17, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan

Partners for peace? Trump meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June 2019. Instead of attacking Trump’s diplomatic initiatives as “weak,” Democrats should support negotiations.

Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense

Or reflexively denouncing every Trump policy. While we mustn’t underestimate the danger he poses to our democracy, when he says he wants to end war, the left should call his bluff...

Dec 17, 2024 / Matthew Duss

Packed

Packed Packed

Oderm.

Dec 16, 2024 / OppArt / Gary Taxali

The pure products of America: Roy Cohn and Donald Trump at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, on March 20, 1983.

Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk

Far from being an alien interloper, the incoming president draws from homegrown authoritarianism.

Dec 13, 2024 / Jeet Heer

American Carnage?

American Carnage? American Carnage?

Trump promises a Project 2025 future.

Dec 13, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

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Yale Students Voted to Divest, but What’s Next is Unclear Yale Students Voted to Divest, but What’s Next is Unclear

The referendum calls on the school to divest its $41 billion endowment from military weapons manufacturing firms, yet the power to do so is in the hands of the board of trustees.

Dec 13, 2024 / StudentNation / Maggie Grether

Try Your Imperial Highness

Try Your Imperial Highness Try Your Imperial Highness

Now do it for him.

Dec 12, 2024 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Former Oklahoma senator Fred Harris stands outside his Corrales, New Mexico, home, Friday, July 23, 2004.

Remembering Fred Harris Remembering Fred Harris

1930–2024

Dec 11, 2024 / Jim Hightower

Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, speaks in front of attendees during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 4, 2024.

At CPAC Argentina, a Preview of Donald Trump’s Second Term At CPAC Argentina, a Preview of Donald Trump’s Second Term

A far-right international extending from Lara Trump and Steve Bannon to Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei joined reactionaries across Europe to promise no safe quarter for the left....

Dec 6, 2024 / Jacob Sugarman

French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Michel Barnier stand at attention during commemorations marking the 106th anniversary of the armistice ending World War I on November 11, 2024.

Macronism Has Died a Second Death Macronism Has Died a Second Death

 The French parliament votes to oust the government.

Dec 6, 2024 / Harrison Stetler

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