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If you had told me when I was a teenager that “Fox News pundit” would be one of my future roles, I would have been horrified. But here we are. In the last month, I have appeared on right-wing cable news four times, twice on NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Show and twice on Fox’s The Will Cain Show. Getting invited back strikes me as a sign that I must have failed, but I’m fairly satisfied with how…
The Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor is over, and the media is saying socialists have “ hit a wall .” They’re asking: does Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Francesca Hong’s narrow loss to moderate David Crowley show where working-class power ends and begins? And should the left move out of the way for the party establishment in races like these? It’s been a year of effort and…
Isn’t it a little odd, when you think about it, that so many people have to be hopped up on chemical stimulants just to make it through their working day?
Arundhati Roy’s brother did not pretend to be sad when their mother, Mary Roy, passed away. However, it was different for Arundhati. She writes, “I came undone. If I could understand myself better, I’d probably understand a lot more about the world and certainly about my country, in which so many people seem to revere their persecutors and appear grateful to be subjugated and told what to do, what…
I’ ll confess that I have been, to use a British-ism, somewhat chuffed to read headlines in newspapers and magazines like the following:
Shortly before my father’s 1974 emigration to New York City, he’s an aspiring politician in post-colonial Jamaica, whipping support for democratic socialist Michael Manley’s bid to become prime minister, riding People’s National Party vans to Kingston, canvassing voters, not returning home for days. He’s 16 years old. Beneath a coconut tree on his family’s modest plot of land, he delivers speeches…
Francesca Hong, a State Assembly member in Wisconsin, nearly just became the Democratic nominee for governor. The 37-year-old democratic socialist, a single mom and former restaurant worker, was leading in polls, and running on a platform of universal childcare, a data center moratorium, and raising the minimum wage. If elected, Hong would have been the first member of the Democratic Socialists of…
And I bade my comrades cast lots among them, which of them should have the hardihood with me to lift the stake and grind it into the Cyclops’ eye…
Representative Andy Ogles has lost his seat in Congress, and the nation is a better, cleaner place for it. Few people did so much, in so short a time in elected office, to drag America’s public discourse into the gutter of bigotry, religious hatred, and outright fascism. Practically every week, a new statement came from Ogles’ office that marked a new low point in ethics and good taste.…
I n October 1969, nearly 14 years into the Vietnam War and only months before the first civilian draft lottery, Daniel Ellsberg decided that Americans deserved to know the truth. The military analyst photocopied thousands of pages of classified documents and, after U.S. senators refused to release them, leaked them to the public in 1971—demonstrating that the U.S. government had known early on…
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