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US Rep. Nancy Pelosi and US Sen. Charles Schumer should sacrifice their own ambition to help their nation and party. The success of attorney and former Marine Conor Lamb in this week’s congressional election in southwest Pennsylvania is further evidence of the potential for widespread victory by Democrats in the…
Read More »Here’s another entry about politics from my 1992 personal journal. I had been volunteering in Paul Tsongas’s presidential campaign for about a year when he suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination on March 19 for lack of capacity to keep battling Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Paul had won…
Read More »There must be a comic out there who wrote this already, but I will suggest it for consideration. In the contest of political language and with humor in the face of swamp gas, the inconvenient media should use the term “droppings” instead of “tweets” for early morning emissions from Trump’s…
Read More »Why are reporters from the N.Y. Times and other media outlets using the term “left-wing” to describe people who oppose racists of all kinds, Nazis, anti-Semites, anti-LGBTQs, christian fascists, and other hate-mongers? Isn’t it the American way to denounce these forms of inhumanity? Isn’t the American creed about pursuing liberty,…
Read More »Maybe the American Psychological Association (APA) can add a new syndrome to the behaviors that members of the APA observe and treat. I don’t know what else to call it other than Trump-Monitoring Fatigue. I’m not so far over the edge that I need to check in with a…
Read More »In the New York Times, scholar and activist Bill McKibben calls Trump’s decision to cancel U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Accord “stupid and reckless.” It’s looking more and more as if Pres. Trump is doing things, making decisions, and appointing people just because he can—not because the purpose is…
Read More »Picked this up from Charlotte Mandell on Facebook. On Berkeleyside.com, George Lakoff talks about the way we talk about politics in the USA. Web photo by Daphne White courtesy of Berkeleyside.com
Read More »Pioneer blogger Andrew Sullivan is writing a weekly essay for New York Magazine about what’s going on. Here’s the latest.
Read More »Hat tip to Fred Sperounis and Deborah Boucoyannis from Facebook and Talking Points Memo for this interview with community organizer Marshall Ganz. Judis: How do you see this solidarity coming to pass. Doesn’t there have to be leading organizations at this point? One suggestion I’ve heard is that progressives have…
Read More »Author and scholar Jedediah Purdy writes about an extended campaign of political resistance in North Carolina that has lessons for people in other towns, cities, and states. This is from “The New Yorker” magazine.
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