Jake Johnson Common Dreams A campaign finance report filed on Friday revealed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, has resumed spending on Michigan’s…
Stephen Prager Common Dreams “Often at the request of the Bolsonaro family, the US has engaged in a pressure campaign to weaken the Lula government,” explained one analyst. Just two…
By Derek Seidman This article was originally published by Truthout The giant influx from American Israel Public Affairs Committee PACs is a case study in money distorting politics. The American…
Robert Reich Substack Friends, With the midterm races officially beginning this week, a big question hanging over the Republican Party is how Trump will allocate his giant stash of super…
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout The Democrats complained that Republicans weren’t taking the condemnation of socialism seriously enough. A group of conservative Democrats in the…
By Stephen Zunes This article was originally published by Truthout Party leaders are ignoring the three-quarters of registered Democrats who oppose providing military aid to Israel. Despite growing dissatisfaction among…
Chris Hedges Report Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ The…
Nolan Higdon Substack How the Establishment Neutralizes Economic Populism “Democratic Socialists Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone” by david_shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0. “I’ll just make it clear, there’s…
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. The Trump White House has put into…
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Writing about the Supreme Court in 1961, the famous law professor Alexander Bickel praised what hecalled “the passive virtues.” As he explained, “The jurisprudence of the Court…
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout AIPAC funneled money into opposing a candidate who has barely mentioned Israel on the campaign trail. AIPAC has lost yet…
Dr. Adam Hamawy says that to move forward, the Democrats must embrace an anti-war, economically progressive agenda, and abandon the categories of left vs. right. The bipartisan US-backed genocide in…
The first attempt broke the rules and lost. The second one follows them. Jeffrey Wernick The Justice Department has sued thirty states to force them to turn over voter files,…
Jake Johnson Common Dreams Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor, won her state’s Democratic primary for the US Senate on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, defeating US Rep. Angie Craig and…
Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost Pundits are fear-mongering that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory is the clearest sign yet that his party’s old establishment is under a threatening siege. “In the words…
