Category: American Politics
Stanley Heller examines the U.S. Jewish establishment’s responses to Elon Musk’s Nazi salutes at Trump’s inauguration.
O’Brien has not fundamentally changed from the man who took over his local union in 2006 as an anti-reform candidate.
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes argue that support for the far-right is gaining among people of color, reframing the politics originally rooted in white supremacy.
A key element of Donald Trump’s presidential career has been his symbiotic relationship with the organized U.S. far right. This relationship has been unprecedented for any U.S. president or major party presidential candidate, but it has also been complex and
Frank P. Walsh (1864–1939), a progressive defense lawyer from Kansas City and political ally of Woodrow Wilson, almost single handedly created a worker-friendly labor control system during World War I. Throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, U.S. politics were
Roger Bybee recommends Arlie Hochschild’s latest book “Stolen Pride”, an ethnography of Trump-supporting rural poor community in Kentucky.
The beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidential term on January 20 was a crucial day in international politics and for Indigenous migrant communities in the United States.
Musk’s take-over is tantamount to a coup, and far more effective, serious, and dangerous than the insurrection that Trump organized on January 6, 2021.
Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international policies, elect a plutocratic, racist, America First jingoist as President?
From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion polling, I draw three conclusions
From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion polling, I draw three conclusions
Frieda Afary argues that Trump is a fascist, and calls for a multi-faceted, broad-based resistance against the Trump regime.
Carl Davidson and Bill Fletcher Jr. call for the Third Reconstruction – a deep, systemic emancipatory transformation in the United States.
I was born in 1955 in the segregated state of Alabama where the oppressive conditions of segregation meant that my only escape was to “travel in thought” which could only be found in books.
While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for Wall Street.
I don’t think the election of Trump runs straight along the lines of White racism alone. It reflects racism, sexism and self-hate that includes Black, Brown and Women that voted for
Trump’s brand of governance inevitably culminates in chaos and accelerates the tendency toward crisis that is already built into capitalism, accelerating as the profit system confronts its growing contradictions.
This article analyzes the vote breakdown, the pundits’ views, argues that Trump is a fascist and offers perspectives for the needed anti-fascist
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. In order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.
Is the shock about this film that a civil war could happen in the modern US, the “exceptional” USA? Time to wake up, America. The film is not about a civil war, per se, as much as it is about war photographers
Wayne Price reviews Rachel Maddow’s book on US fascism, which lacks a critical perspective on capitalist anti-communism as the cause of fascism.
Daniel Johnson analyzes struggles over historical narratives in the US, and calls for renewal of history from below, against the right-wing censorship.
