This article is published in partnership with the The Center for Media and Democracy. The appearance of Teamsters president Sean O’Brien at the Republican convention in July was the most public salvo yet in an otherwise quiet conservative debate: whether, and how, to embrace labor, and what to do about the union question. O’Brien’s unusual […]

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A renowned chronicler of the evolution and growing pains of democracy, Anthony Barnett reports on the dire potential for abuse of the surveillance state in the wake of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity. West Oxford, UK — Speaking on 29 July at the LBJ library in Austin Texas, to mark the 60th anniversary of […]

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Sioux Falls, SD — When your roots are planted too deep in red soil to move, and the GOP has applied Roundup to your party, the question becomes, now what? For our feisty little band of Dakotans, the answer is direct democracy. The instrument is unwieldy. It can explode in your hands. But it’s all […]

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“We have Fedor the Russian. His thing is inflicting death on people,” said Donald J. Trump in 2008, breathlessly in awe of Fedor Emelianenko, a world-renowned, Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) cage-fighter. “It’s sort of like, you just — somebody dies!” Back in 2008, Trump and his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, teamed up with a St. […]

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Sharply rising prices in 2022 and 2023 made “Bidenflation” a Republican talking point. Inflation, Republicans claimed, was due to a 2021 Democratic spending bill that gave substantial money to people while the US economy suffered the effects of Covid. As this money was spent, prices rose. Reality repudiates this Republican fiction. Presidents have limited control […]

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