We can’t blame Trump and the Republicans alone for the Supreme Court. Democrats had a big hand in it too.
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NYT sees ‘dystopia’ in Chinese surveillance—which looks a lot like U.S. surveillance
There’s a category of story we call “Them Not Us”—U.S. media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.
Ireland to become first country to divest from fossil fuels
“Countries the world over must now urgently follow Ireland’s lead and divest from fossil fuels,” said Gerry Liston at Global Legal Action Network.
“They’ve been doing this massive, anti-democratic model of education reform”
CounterSpin interview with Wayne Au on Gates’ educational failure.
Marxism and human nature
Mainstream conceptions of human nature are rooted in the historical development of capitalism. Elaine Graham-Leigh argues that we can only understand nature through the dialectic method.
Venezuela — after the elections: what is to be done?
Marta Harnecker examines the post-electoral context from a broad historical perspective.
Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh Is precisely the pro-corporate right-wing hack progressives fear
A run-down of Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s positions on various social issues and the danger his appointment could pose to everything from the Department of Labor to the Environmental Protection Agency and even Roe v. Wade.
VIDEO: Congress welcomes an actual fascist as Nazi violence rages in Ukraine
I asked the Washington hosts of Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and founder of two neo-Nazi parties, why they were legitimizing an open fascist at the heart of the extremism plaguing his country.
I ran out of words to describe how bad the recovery numbers are
Back in June, Neil Irwin wrote that he couldn’t find enough synonyms for “good” to adequately describe the jobs numbers.
Ignore their threats, tax the rich
In most states in the United States, the rich have enjoyed ever lower rates of taxation while working people have suffered from inadequately funded public services.
MintPress spoke to legal experts, rights advocates and historians about the future of the U.S. Supreme Court
MPN spoke to Ajamu Baraka, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Rudy Acuña, and the National Lawyers Guild leadership about the U.S. Supreme Court and the past, present, and future of white supremacy in the U.S.
No nerve agents were used in Syria’s Douma, says OPCW
Certain chlorinated organic residues that were found do not come under the Chemical Warfare Convention, the interim report said.
Prepare for the worst
It is worse than you thought. Perhaps twice as bad. Perhaps worse than that.
Why didn’t socialism have over-production crises?
SOCIALISM has collapsed over large tracts of the globe. Where it still exists, the economic regimes have undergone considerable reforms. Not surprisingly therefore the old socialist regimes are objects of much vilification these days.
López Obrador’s moment
It took Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) 12 years to become president-elect of Mexico, making history for Mexico’s Left as his party’s coalition also achieves a legislative majority. But the struggle has only just begun.
Freedom rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the left
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a living Rorschach test for leftists. Her primary win over incumbent Joseph Crowley in a New York City congressional district is impressive on many levels. But the reaction to her victory demonstrates the sad state of affairs of left wing politics in this country. The contradictory responses from people who are otherwise […]
Why did López Obrador win the Mexican Presidency?
The center-left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won by a landslide in Sunday’s elections. Why did he win by such a huge margin?
There’s now proof that Soeharto orchestrated the 1965 killings
As Indonesia commemorates 20 years since the fall of the New Order military dictatorship, the foundation myth of the regime (and, indeed, the post-New Order state as well) remains stubbornly in place.
Despite Pruitt’s exit there is “no happy ending” for Planet Earth
“Before everyone gets excited about Pruitt, remember we’re going to get all the same horrific policy under Andrew Wheeler, without any of the comic, attention-drawing personal corruption.”
In a repeat of Brazil model, judge orders detention of Rafael Correa
The former president of Ecuador is accused of being involved in the failed kidnapping of a coup plotter based on mails between officials.
