Category: Politics
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May Primaries Offer Hope and Challenges for the Democratic Left
by Richard Eskow | Jul 22, 2018 | Elections, PoliticsReporters who cover primaries, especially in off-years like 2018, often find themselves in a quandary. They’re expected to find meaning in each election’s results. But not many people vote in these primaries, and local issues are often more important than national ones. The resulting journalistic pronouncements are often built on sand, vulnerable to being washed […]
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Letter From Berlin
by Michael Naumann | Jul 13, 2018 | PoliticsIn April 1945 I was liberated in my hometown of Koethen by US forces. I did not understand this, of course. I was only three years old and had survived a number of allied bombing runs in the basement of our house with my mother and my three siblings. My father had died at Stalingrad […]
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Millennial Midterms
by Mark Riddle | Jul 10, 2018 | PoliticsMillennials are not what you think they are. In the common imagination, millennials are—we are told—entitled new urban professionals, highly educated and densely packed into the newly vibrant coastal cities of America. This is a convenient narrative, but, like many convenient narratives, it is wrong. And the cost of exactly how wrong could well be […]
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With or Without a Wave, Democrats Can Win the House
by Mark Gersh and the NCEC staff | Jul 3, 2018 | PoliticsThe following analysis of the upcoming fall elections was compiled by Mark Gersh and the staff at the National Committee for an Effective Congress (NCEC). Based in Washington, D.C., the NCEC has been a leading source of financial support and data-driven targeting to liberal and progressive candidates for decades. Backed by an extensive archive of […]
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Marlboro Man Diagnosed With Chronic Insecurity
by Simon Reich | Jul 2, 2018 | Foreign Policy, Immigration, PoliticsAmerica has become obsessed with feeling insecure. It has become an endemic part of the culture, though it wasn’t always this way. I am old enough to remember as a child, at the movies, we would watch the ads before the film started. One of them would always be for Marlboro cigarettes. It was always […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety
Editor’s Picks
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Electoral Helter-Skelter in 2024
By Mark Medish and Joel McCleary
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By Gary Hart
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God and QR Codes for Trump; The Courage Tour Goes to Michigan
By Anne Nelson
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By Art Levine