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Category: U.S. Politics

  • Who Are the Progressives’ Friends?

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not trying to end to our conversation with people in these categories.  I’m trying to clarify the position of progressives by comparison with competing voices in the “progressive” movement.  I put progressive in quotation marks because there are non-progressive participants in this movement. In fact, there are categories of participants that…

  • Progressives Grieve, Conservatives Posing as Democrats Gloat

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesI want to urge activists to use caution in the post-Bernie stage of this election cycle.  I’m a little worried about the tone the analyses have taken–not for Bernie, I’m worried for the activists.  It is crucial to the health of the movement to be able to put things in their proper…

  • The Criminal State

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are only two political rivals in the world today: organized crime and the state.  It is true that there are many seemingly valid state ideologies vying for attention, but they are mostly different versions of the same idea, none of which defend the state in the way it needs to be…

  • The Conservative Internationalism of Neo-Conservatives

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesrealism versus liberal internationalism The traditions of American foreign policy that most people are familiar with are realism and liberal internationalism.  Realists are usually conservatives or Republicans, for example Eisenhower and Ford, while liberal internationalists are usually liberals or Democrats, for example Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter.  But these divisions broke down…

  • Is something Fishy About the MAGA Story?

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Pope Francis was in Ireland as part of the World Meeting of Families Archbishop Viganò wrote a bombshell letter that monopolized the news cycle. Now Francis is in Panama for World Youth Day and a story about MAGA hat wearing Catholic school boys from Kentucky is still going strong. Throw…

  • Conservatives in Liberals’ Clothing

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesAn opinion published Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal argues that there is nothing surprising about Trump era populism. It is a natural consequence of liberal democracy. This is a strange argument considering the fact that the same article portrays conservatives and their populist supporters as representatives of the liberal tradition. The…

  • What Are We Fighting For and What Are We Fighting Against?

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt appears to be true that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. According to Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia is also responsible for the rise of far-right fringe politicians and ideologues in Europe. In his book, Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir, Shekhovtsov…

  • Kavanaugh’s Hearing and the Incivility of a Conquered People

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI would not say the same things about Orin Hatch that I have said about Jeff Flake, but only because I firmly believe he would fly over here and zap me, and he wouldn’t need a plane to do it. As I write, I’m listening to him talk about poor, pitiful Brett…

  • Atta Boy Republicans

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrett Kavanaugh’s hearing is the cherry atop Congress’s infernal sundae. We the people don’t dare ask what’s inside those lumpy scoops of ice cream and that oily chocolate sauce, but there is no doubt that the cherry is the most loathsome part of it. Unfortunately, no one in Congress will bat…

  • UN Report Accuses Assad of War Crimes

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    Sheila Marler
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFox News has reported that a United Nations commission has accused the Assad regime and affiliated militias of war crimes.  A mountain of evidence is claimed as the basis for these accusations, but sources are not provided. “The 24-page document by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic…

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