Category: Current events
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RFK, Jr, & Cornel West go independent
Interesting developments on the margins of the presidential race: Cornel West has left the Green Party to run as an independent, and RFK, Jr. has exited the Democratic primaries to also run an independent campaign. West’s decision seems disappointing. He had the chance to help build a real progressive party…
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The Great and Powerful…
The thing I like about this meme, besides the eerie resemblance, is that it suggests that we’re coming to the end of the movie, when the man who derived his power from getting others to believe that he was all-powerful is finally revealed to all as the charlatan that he…
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Guns & cars & rules, oh my!
I’m not a big fan of either guns or cars. I believe both produce a lot of unnecessary harm in our world (and our country, specifically). But I’m realistic — I know that neither one is going away any time soon. Certainly not here in the good old US of…
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Mad Tea Party
In attempt to better understand current political events, I’ve been reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Our nation’s politics have clearly gone down the rabbit hole and just get curiouser and curiouser. This Tea Party is mad in more ways than one. Confusion is contagion. Time stands still; no progress is…
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Not Your Grandfather’s GOP
One thing that gets lost in the 24-hr news cycle of political reporting is a longer view of political developments—not just for today, this week, or this election cycle, but over a span of decades. One of the most significant political developments over the past half century has been the…
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Post-election: The challenge for progressive populism
The elections of last Tuesday were reportedly very bad for progressives. And in many ways they were. But in some ways, they could serve as a catalyst for something great. The question is: Which way forward from here? After a major progressive mobilization helped bring Obama into the White House…
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