With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say It’s Time to Go Big
As results from the U.S. Senate races trickled in from Georgia, Rep. Mondaire Jones proclaimed, "The era of small ideas is over."
Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution.
Will Biden Channel Franklin Roosevelt?
The incoming president would do well to study and emulate FDR's bold leadership on the same issues of spiraling inequity the country faces again.
Best of ‘Scheer Intelligence’ 2020: Chomsky, Abdullah, Prins, and More
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and the 2020 general election, Robert Scheer and the “Scheer Intelligence” team made sure to bring you progressive perspectives from a wide…
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…
White Supremacy Is Only Plausible Explanation for 2020 Election Results
Voter polling on racism and Black Lives Matter show it was the biggest factor in Republican victories across the country.
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.
Thomas Frank: How the Democratic Party Became a Vehicle of Aristocracy
In the second part of a two-part interview with "Scheer Intelligence," the historian explores how anti-populism made liberals comfortable with plutocracy.
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Love to Blame the Left
Mass media lost no time in helping the right wing of the Democratic Party blame its left wing for poor election results.
It’s Time to Engage With the Battle Inside the Democratic Party
Progressives made Trump’s defeat possible. Now we need to challenge Biden and other corporate Democrats before they marginalize the left once more.
Chris Hedges: American Requiem
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.