Thursday, 28 March , 2024

US Politics

What Now?

By Andrew Levine November 9, 2018 The good news is that Democrats will take over the House of Representatives and hold onto or take back governorships...

8 Thinkers on the Left Explain What the Midterm Results Mean...

Nina Turner, Maria Svart, Rick Perlstein, Barbara Ransby, Bill Fletcher Jr., Ai-jen Poo, Larry Cohen and Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor give their takeaways from Tuesday night November...

How Donald Trump Saved the Democratic Party From Itself

By Ryan Grim November 6 2018 On the morning of November 9, 2016, millions of Americans woke up in a fog. In New Holland, Pennsylvania, Annie...

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of...

Making sense of the midterms

November 08, 2018 Tuesday's midterm elections were widely seen as a referendum on the Trump administration. For months prior, down-ballot Republicans clamored to blow the...

Two Years After Trump’s Victory, Voters Erect an Impediment to His...

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Nov. 6, 2018 The vaunted blue wave that Democrats had hoped for failed to fully materialize on Tuesday night, but the days...

A Spectre Is Haunting the White House: Why the Trump Administration...

A new report from the Trump White House attempts to curb the growth of socialism in the United States. Clearly, the administration sees the...

Trump-Kushner-Netanyahu

Jared Kushner Likely Paid No Income Tax for Years Despite Making Millions, NYT Reports Documents reviewed by The New York Times describe his business dealings,...

Trump’s China-bashing more class war than trade war: Thomas Piketty

French economist and darling of the left says US president is using external threats to gain support of the poor and distract from his...

$6 billion of Iranian money: Why Israeli firm Black Cube really...

When it was revealed earlier this year that the commercial spy firm was targeting members of the Obama administration, it was assumed it was...