Richard D. Wolff: Making the transition to worker coops a central part of socialist objectives brings the reality of socialism to the immediate micro-level of every working person’s daily life on the job.
Truly Radical Ideas from the Past
Michael T. Hertz: Can you imagine any candidate today – including Bernie Sanders – calling for a national referendum before a president could declare war?
After Mueller: A Republic or a Monarchy?
Lance Simmens: If we do not address the current unbalance we run the risk of creating a modified form of government that is the result not of thoughtful consideration but childish recrimination.
Donald Trump: Washingtonian or Hitlerian?
Ted Vaill: He was such a bad boy that his father sent him off to military school when he was 13. He rose to become head of a student platoon that specialized in enforcing the strict “rules” that governed the students’ military-style conduct.
Trump: Mafia Don and Figurehead
John Peeler: Trump is not so important in himself as he is as a unifying symbol for the diverse elements of the American right. It’s the focus on him that lets them all pull together.
Your Turn, Mister Mueller
Lance Simmens: The attendant damage of allowing the Trump administration to essentially dictate the public narrative for a solid month before stepping up to the plate is both unforgivable and may prove fatal.
Progressive White Men Need to Step Up, Not Back!
Rich Procida: It should be obvious that older White Supremacists are not going to step down so that colored people can have their chance to lead. Only white progressive men are being asked to step aside.
Just Try to Contact the IRS
Michael T. Hertz: At the end of the day, with staggering long phone waits and no way to email, I get the feeling that the IRS really doesn’t want to communicate with taxpayers.
Who Gains When Democracy Is Destroyed?
Julianne Malveaux: Democracy dies when tyrants prevail, and when we have seen a prevaricator, a provocateur, a philistine, and a panderer occupy the Oval Office. Why? Because predatory capitalists gain from the elevation of a braggadocious tyrant who, while feeding their bottom line, is behaviorally uncontrollable.
Figuring Out Trump
Steve Hochstadt: His ability to get away with every possible form of cheating is part of his appeal, because he is cheating the establishment, the elite, the “deep state”, the “them” that is not “us”.
Don’t Mess with Maxine: Mnuchin Madness
Julianne Malvieux: The hapless Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, forgot his place and was publicly and unacceptably disrespectful to Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
The Stories of the South Are the Stories of a Nation, and Need to Be Told
Sandra Bass: Although my family had left long before I was born, the South permeated our home. It hung heavy in the air on Thanksgiving when the stink of chitterlings would linger long, long, long, after they were cooked and eaten.
Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression
Richard Grieman: The Macron government’s real answer to public opposition posed by the Yellow Vests has been brutally stark: slander, violent repression and strict new laws limiting the right to demonstrate
