Category: Politics
Nader on Corporate Power in the Age of Trump
by Michael Payne | Dec 20, 2016 | Election 2016, PoliticsAuthor Michael Payne interviewed Ralph Nader about Breaking Through Power and the future of the progressive movement. You can read that discussion here. The end of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign left many progressives wondering, “What now?” With the exception of a small minority of holdouts, most Sanders supporters went over to Hillary Clinton. […]
Organization Man
by Michael Payne | Dec 20, 2016 | Election 2016, PoliticsAt the conclusion of an September 26–29 “Breaking Through Power” conference in Washington, D.C., Michael Payne asked the event’s sponsor, Ralph Nader, about prospects for building a progressive movement. The brief interview was edited for length and clarity. You can also read Payne’s full dispatch from the conference here. There was a lot of […]
A Pardon for Don Siegelman
by Lou Dubose | Dec 8, 2016 | PoliticsAmong the recent WikiLeak document dumps is an email from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta to White House Counsel Neil Eggleston, urging a presidential pardon for Governor Don Siegelman—a former Democratic governor of Alabama now closing in on the end of a 78-month sentence for bribery, conspiracy, fraud, and obstruction of justice charges. In the […]
A Beer Hall Putsch in an Italian Restaurant
by Hannah Gais | Dec 6, 2016 | Election 2016“The Alt-Right has been declared the winner. The Alt-Right is more deeply connected to Trumpian populism than the ‘conservative movement,’” Richard Spencer tweeted as the election results rolled in on November 8. “We’re the establishment now.” The loosely organized, yet newly emboldened, white nationalist coalition Spencer lays claim to as president and director of the […]
Meet the Press
by Rick Perlstein | Dec 6, 2016 | Election 2016, RickipediaI was curious, so I did a bit of research on theories about why great civilizations fall. Some scholars point to the danger of overextended militaries, others on overwhelmed bureaucracies. Sometimes the key factor is declines in public health, often caused by agricultural crises. Political corruption is another contender, as are inflated currencies, technological inferiority, […]
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