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Henry Giroux on “American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism”
Militarization and dehumanization are on the rise in the US. Henry Giroux discusses what that means for democracy.
Will This Climate Change Dystopia Have a Sequel?
Midterm campaigns barely touched on the most important issues of our time.
America Then and Now
The USA has traded the pretense of “spreading Democracy” for actually inspiring autocracy.
#MeToo Could Become a Reckoning If Congress Treats It as a Financial Crisis
The 2018 midterm elections represented the first electoral referendum of the #MeToo era.
Dark Money Paid New Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s Salary for Years
Whitaker previously served as the executive director of FACT, a dark money funder of the conservative movement.
The Election Was Step One. Now It’s Time to Take On the Capitalist Class.
Only a mass multiracial working class movement can stop Trump.
Several States Pass Campaign Finance Reform Measures During Midterms
A number of measures across the country aimed at reforming money in politics passed on Tuesday.
Progressives Are Pushing Economic Democracy. Democrats Need to Listen.
Democrats at all levels of government must direct public resources toward a cooperative, not a corporate economy.
Fierce Critic of Mueller Probe Now Has Power to Sabotage the Investigation
The acting attorney general could curtail funding for the probe and preclude avenues of investigation.
Trump Firing Sessions Brings Back Troubling Memories of the Nixon Era
Trump’s firing of Sessions has led to many comparisons between Trump and former President Richard Nixon.