Despite the party’s progressive platform, campaigns up and down the ticket ran away from anything that might discomfort the most comfortable, writes Sam Pizzigati.
ELECTION 2020: Establishment Dems Can’t Say ‘No’ to Billionaires
Category: Politics
25 YEARS: The Meaning of Consortium News
Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria.
Only Kooks Believe In The Deep State
Mainstream, liberal U.S. discourse has accomplished an amazing feat of Orwellian doublethink with regard to the notion that unelected power structures are running things without the consent of the nation’s official elected government, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
ELECTION 2020: Cracks Emerge in Democratic Party a Week After Election
ELECTION 2020: Reading Biden’s Signal on Iran
With an eye on a U.S. return to “international agreements and norms” Iranian leaders have cautiously welcomed the Democrat’s victory.
ELECTION 2020: Georgia’s Urban & Suburban Shifts
Jan Nijman describes the demographic changes in what has become one of the country’s most politically divided states.
Labour ‘Anti-Semitism’ Report Exposes Real ‘Political Interference’
Jonathan Cook dissects the investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the U.K. Labour Party.
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Chris Hedges: American Requiem
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.
The Invention of the Electoral College
Eleven delegates at the Constitutional Convention were left to decide how the country would choose a president, writes Phillip J. VanFossen.