Cafe : Opinion
Politicians Need To Work For Voters, Not Extremists
Elected officials' attacks on election workers are a dangerous new form of radicalism.
12.22.20 | 3:35 pm
For Democrats To Win In Georgia, Messaging Should Link Race And Class
The math is clear: Democrats must excite and animate a coalition base of Democratic voters, and lure over a portion of the middle.
12.15.20 | 10:43 am
Enough Already: Forgiving Student Debt Is The Only Way To Get College Educated Young People Into The Middle Class
It’s time to do away with the bad faith arguments against student debt forgiveness — and the time for forgiveness is now, while the nation attempts to economically recover from a pandemic.
12.11.20 | 1:39 pm
The Number Of Democratic Socialists In The House Will Soon Double. But The Movement Scored Its Biggest Victories Down Ballot
The resurgence of democratic socialism has occurred during a period of growing activism against widening inequality, persistent racism and looming environmental disaster.
12.11.20 | 10:00 am
The Lumpenproletariat: The Long-Discarded Economic Theory That Helps Explain An Increasingly Divided America
In America, how is it that the very poorest counties, the cities with minimal health care, voted for Trump, a supposed billionaire who wanted to take what little revenue flows their way and give it to his 1 percent friends, via a tax cut?
12.09.20 | 11:00 am
Trump Will Name Houthis A Terrorist Group To Box In Biden On Iran. This Will Lead To Death And Diplomacy Demise In Yemen.
No matter the final U.S. decision on licensing and waivers related to the impending Houthi designation, only one thing is clear: the job of staving off the world’s worst humanitarian disaster will be unnecessarily complicated by a terrorist designation that lacks efficacy.
12.01.20 | 9:00 am
It’s Not Just Trump: COVID-19 Is The Test That Conservatism Was Built To Fail
Focusing solely on the ousting of this particular president and his friends — and on their considerable failures as leaders — risks missing a deeper, more fundamental point: that though Donald Trump lost reelection, the ideology and belief system underpinning so many of the debacles of his presidency prevails, and was always doomed to fail the country in the face of a disaster like this one.
11.30.20 | 4:03 pm
Dems Will Welcome One Of The Most Diverse Groups Of Elected Officials To Public Office In 2021. GOPers Will Get A Little More Diverse Too
The GOP caucus became less white and male in 2020, adding conservative pro-life women to Congress and state legislatures.
11.25.20 | 4:17 pm