Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He ruminates about defying the Constitution to serve a third term; he is determined to retain absolute control.
Chris Hedges: The Last Election
Category: Election 2024
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible
Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing — and then overcoming — the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
WATCH: ‘Workers Strike Back’
Chris Hedges, Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant spoke at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday.
Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs
These billionaires will make a fortune “harvesting” the remains of the empire. But they are ultimately slaying the beast that created American wealth and power.
A Switch in Time?
Andrew P. Napolitano on Tulsi Gabbard’s abandonment of the people’s constitutional protection from spying under the Fourth Amendment.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Predictable Capitulation of Tulsi Gabbard
By professing support for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after opposing it for years, Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has just told America it’s the same old imperium after all.
Che Guevara’s Undying Spell & Other Tales of Cuba
Ullekh NP begins with Che the revolutionary, whose many sides are yet undiscovered, in these excerpts from his new book, Mad About Cuba: A Malayali Revisits the Revolution.
Will Trump Step Up Attacks on Venezuela?
With Trump’s cabinet full of hawks, Alan MacLeod assesses the potential for the president-elect’s second administration to cause more trouble for the Maduro government.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Trump II & the Middle East
There are always hopes — so far proven unfounded — that in a second term an American president will be kinder to the Arabs.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Sebastian Gorka Is Back
This time around, Trump has elected to ignore the F.B.I. security clearance vetting process for the sworn member of Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group that served under the Nazis.