The One Vice Presidential Pick Who Could Ruin Democratic Unity
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a leading candidate to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Selecting him would fracture the party.
Corruption in New York’s Redistricting Plans
Progressives and Democrats were cheered last week when New York state’s highest court tossed out the 2022 congressional district map and ordered the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to draw a…
Oklahoma election recall
Oklahoma council member's ties to white nationalism
The Price of Paperless
Cold winds carry lead-filled dust from a nearby slagheap, a hundred million tonnes of toxic tailings, and scatter it on clothes hanging from laundry lines, on open buckets of drinking…
Rick Santorum Claims Democratic Wins Are Due to ‘Sexy Issues’ on Ballots
Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and presidential candidate, took to Newsmax to claim that Democrats' key wins on Tuesday were only because they were 'very sexy' issues like 'marijuana…
View on Israel-Gaza emerges as rare divide for California’s Senate hopefuls
Barbara Lee is the only candidate in California’s US Senate race calling for a ceasefire. Diplomacy—not destruction—is key to securing lasting peace.
Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution
Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the country’s constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues. Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed,…
Democratic Leaders Are Betraying Black Voters
In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act by deploying a dubious legal doctrine with no textual roots in the Constitution, arguing that…
Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport
One of the most interesting parts of this story is how the city where this woman is mayor and cities where other women are mayors in Japan have higher birth…
The Anatomy of Trumpocracy: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
…US political culture has long been dominated by oligarchical corporate and financial interests, militarism and jingoism, but the current Trumpocracy represents a new level of neoliberal cruelty. Indeed, the United…