Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute. “Fear turns Black politics on its head.” – Glen Ford As Black Agenda Report contributor Anthony Rogers-Wright recently reported, there is […]
Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Trump’s war on dissent. Republican-controlled House committee subpoenas BreakThrough News in effort to force outlet to turn over financial records. The Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News in an effort to force the outlet to turn over financial records and records of internal communications. BreakThrough News, a nonprofit media […]
Stuart Stevens worked for George W. Bush and Mitt Romney. He joins John Harwood to talk Donald Trump's election denial, the war on Iran, the Epstein files, and race being the GOP's 'original sin.'
Beyond the Feminism-or-Family Dichotomy The relationship between feminism, the family, and capitalism has become one of the most contentious theoretical and political questions of recent decades. In many societies—semi-peripheral ones in particular—rapid social change, rising female educational attainment, women’s growing presence in public life, and shifting family patterns have raised new questions about the future [...]
Kathy Gannon Substack The White House Correspondents should take a moment to be ashamed. Independent journalism is the cornerstone, or certainly a pillar of democracy and while our independence has been on a steady downhill slide, this annual dinner shames us all. The White House Correspondents’ glitzy annual dinner celebrates a cozy relationship between reporters […]
As part of Spectre‘s ongoing discussion regarding how the Left can think the conjuncture in Venezuela given recent US intervention and the dynamics of the Venezuelan state, here Spectre editors Shireen Akram-Boshar and Charlie Post interview Federico Fuentes. Federico is a longtime Venezuela solidarity activist who lived in Caracas for several years during the Hugo Chávez government as [...]