The ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party
Joe Biden’s choices to run the Office of Management and Budget and the State Department personify everything that's wrong with the party.
Chris Hedges: The Great Delusion
The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that…
Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?
It’s almost twenty years since 9/11, why is it still all war, all the time?
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: A Certain Kind of Diversity
That a black man might helm the horrendous war machine that so effectively chews up black and brown bodies is an obscenity that’s absolutely American.
Michèle Flournoy’s Fall Proves What Progressive Pushback Can Do
Activism succeeded in changing “Defense Secretary Flournoy” from a fait accompli to a lost fantasy of the military-industrial complex.
Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing.
Biden’s Young Hawk: The Case Against Jake Sullivan
The appointee to National Security Advisor has a history of casual evasion of responsibility for his role in a series of disastrous foreign policy adventures.
Biden Appointee Spread Russian Hacker Conspiracy
How can Democrats oppose unhinged conspiracy theories while empowering its worst purveyors?
Will the Biden Administration Dare Cut Military Spending?
This year’s presidential election was decided primarily by voter concerns about Covid-19 and the economy, not by voters crying out for a continuation of America’s endless wars or demanding yet…