Editor’s Note: The “red shift” Thom Hartmann mentions in this article refers to the discrepancy between exit polls and actual election outcomes (which, up until a couple of decades ago, used to track very closely). If this difference was due to random errors, we would expect it to favor the two parties about equally,…
By Don Pelton A “Bag of Marbles” is another one of those WWII movies that invariably makes me grateful that we in the United States have never lived under a fascist regime … and now I have to say “so far.” It’s that caveat that makes this story still relevant for our perilous time,…
By Don Pelton I started listening to this latest video from the Lincoln Project (a group of long-time GOP consultants), which has been issuing a steady stream of blistering ads against Trump and his GOP enablers, but — not being very young — I was put off by the musical style and was about…
The best political commentary I’ve read in months: Gore Vidal, one of America’s best chroniclers of empire, once provided instruction to a British interviewer expressing confusion over the radical hostility Republicans showed toward Barack Obama, and the former president’s inability to react with equal aggression: “Obama believes the Republican Party is a political party…
By Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino Pessimism looms large in America today. It’s not just because of Donald Trump, the vicar of fear and violence. It’s COVID-19, a faltering economy, the growing power of Russia and China, fires and climate change – you name it. Journalists and analysts have launched warnings: American democracy is…