By Aimee Allison* – Newsweek Remember this moment. For Black women and women of color across the country, Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate marks a watershed moment—one that rightly honors the integral role Black women have played in American…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios…
Freedman – Newsweek Jamaal Bowman, a progressive, scored an upset victory over incumbent Eliot Engel in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The primary took place on June 23rd, but the contest wasn’t officially decided until more than three weeks later—and then only because…
Editorial The re-election of Andrzej Duda as president, by the narrowest of margins, shows Polish liberals must find a way to reconnect with non-urban voters To understand what was at stake in Sunday’s cliffhanger presidential election in Poland, it is worth rewinding a…
Opinion by Brad Parscale*, in The Washington Post “Bush’s Rating Falls To Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds,” read a bold headline on the front page of the New York Times on June 29, 2004. The Times described a fraught atmosphere among the electorate…
By Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral…
Opinion, Doug Gordon* – Newsweek “The system was blinking red.” That is what an intelligence official reportedly said about briefings President Donald Trump and congressional leaders received in January about the spread of coronavirus and its potential to become a…
By Nikki Schwab* – Daily Mail, UK Draft Andrew Cuomo! Democratic twittersphere lights up with demands to make New York governor the party’s 2020 candidate after commanding response to coronavirus put Joe Biden in the shade ‘Draft Andrew Cuomo’ accounts have been popping up on…
By Saber Azam* GENEVA, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) – The fourth and last presidential election in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019 was yet another setback to the democratic process. Not only did it take months…
By Ben Judah* – The Guardian Leaders in the late Soviet Union wilfully ignored the need for structural reform. The Democratic contender should take note Despite being frail and confused, he won the trust of an oligarchic party nomenklatura in a declining superpower by promising…
