Republican party
Is the GOP crazy enough to defeat the HEROES Act?
The HEROES Act passed in the House on May 15, but it has no chance of passing the Senate and getting Trump’s signature. Or does it? First, what would...
The 1%, the police, and the fascist danger
Getting desperate, the capitalist 1% edges toward fascism.
The Marxist Classes: Dog-whistle politics and how to fight it
Dog-whistle politics—code words that don't refer explicitly to race but are fraught with racial meaning—has been used by both major political parties. But the GOP's enthusiastic embrace of this...
Do you want Trump’s finger on the nuclear trigger?
Trump’s foreign policy approach totally lacks coherence. His advisors are an eclectic collection of right-wingers, kooks, and extremists. Some have no foreign policy experience whatsoever but it's Trump's finger that...