“The good news is, we can win these types of fights,” said one campaigner. “We helped drive out three Cabinet secretaries from office last time, and we can do that kind of thing again.” Progressive advocates voiced alarm Monday over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s initial leadership picks—including a border czar …

For the past several decades, as the leader of a unipolar world, all diplomatic pathways to peace went through Washington. Any negotiated settlement had to be an American led negotiated settlement. But enforcing hegemony means not being impartial. It means rewarding one side with weapons and diplomatic support and coercing …

“No one—not Donald Trump or JD Vance, nor any one CEO—can stop solidarity,” said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler. “Organized labor is the path forward.” The largest labor unions in the United States are ready for a fight. That much was made clear within hours of Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in …

“This is an absolutely devastating development on the precipice of the next administration,” said one journalist. Journalists and other critics of how money influences U.S. politics expressed alarm and disappointment in response to Friday reporting that shortly after the nation’s latest election, the research nonprofit OpenSecrets had to lay off …

“Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. …

As the warring ruling class seems to be pushing for nuclear brinkmanship, on this election night let us not be distracted. Much significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11:00 p.m. PDT on November 5th. While everyone’s attention will be on who …

Both the leading candidates Trump and Harris have almost identical agendas of promoting US imperialist interests. But equally fail to take note of significant shifts in global politics. On November 5, the people of the United States will head to the polls to elect their next president and legislators. The …

“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won. Despite the billions spent to create the illusion of choice culminating in the …

The United States needs new public media policies to redress a history of racism and xenophobia. In communities across the nation, millions of immigrants are living in harmony with native-born residents, with neighbors, coworkers, and friends collectively caring for each other. Yet we rarely see those stories uplifted on the …

The U.S. political system is perpetuated through the facade of choice. The false belief that we have the power to decide who our political leaders will be and what policy the government will implement, is one cultivated to manufacture compliance and quell the revolutionary spirit of the masses. The U.S. …