Do voters really still punish carpetbaggers and reward candidates with deep ties to their districts? Fetterman’s campaign and findings from political science research tell us that the answer.
Opinions & Commentary
Understanding politics and history and how they are inextricably bound together is vital for our society to survive and avoid another onset of oppression, slaughter and slavery.
As we face yet another nuclear threat, we need candidates elected who are going to support negotiating peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Yes, there are some really miserable human beings doing some incredibly cruel things to a whole lot of people—many from Senate seats and mega church pulpits and capitol buildings and television studios. But that is not the whole story.
People should believe in your humanity, Elon. You have accomplished a lot that could not have happened in the absence of that humanity. But as you are no doubt already finding out, Twitter is a different creature.
For millennia, hypocrisy was the sneaky cloak of choice for miscreants. They used it to signal respect for society by pretending to play within its rules. Now, they smirk.
Predicting what is going to happen on November 8th is not a binary problem. It has more to do with facts than Republicans care to confront or admit.
If ideas like cutting corporate tax rates and making billionaires wealthier could actually fix inflation, it would have been fixed ages ago.
In 2018, more than 100 million people didn’t find a compelling enough reason to leave the house and allot a couple of hours to speak into the future of their children, of their country, of the planet.
When you compare Trump's cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has swindled out of the American working class and given to the top 1 percent since 1980, Trump looks like a piker.
Slaveholders, the Third Reich and Donald Trump all embraced and executed the principles of Fascism and white supremacy in their relentless, maniacal quest for power and money.
The appearance of the gallows at the January 6th Insurrection had a similar impact on America as the second airliner hitting the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001: the realization that this was a planned attack.
On November 8th, voting against the Republican Party isn’t about one party winning and another party losing. It’s about good people stopping a very bad movement, one that is antithetical to life and country.
The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations.
A generation of children has been given tainted lessons from people entrusted to show them how to be human—and they have been betrayed—making it nearly impossible for them to discern reality from the lies they are fed.
Just when you thought you'd put a stake through its heart, fascism climbs out of its grave once more to suck the blood out of the body politic.