I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. —Al Sharpton Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed ec...
The democrat would oppose the status quo. She did it because she believed that democrats are supposed to contribute to the betterment of society in any way they can. There was of course distrust for all politicians as they represented a component of the establishment, but if you only have tw...
The Republican Party is the party of commerce and markets. Across generations, stretching back to an age before Republicans were organized under that name, Republicans have channeled the political will of ambitious tradesmen, merchants and professionals. Whatever else the party has come to represent o...
In recent years, I have noticed more studies that focus on disadvantaged and marginalized groups and communities (e.g., Walker, 2023; Zumpe, 2023) that did not receive much attention before. Stronger criticality can be seen in these studies as scholars work to challenge the dominance of ...
What the anti-Israel activists did was simple. They looked at the million Jews wiped out from Arab lands and just blamed the Zionists (Jews). Like most Jew-haters – they simply hid the truth behind an antisemitic conspiracy theory. For them it does not matter than 50 years before modern...
What did Darren Wilson really say when he found Michael Brown walking in the street? Even if Wilson was originally as polite as he testified, I can hardly believe that Michael Brown’s alleged “fuck what you have to say” was, as Wilson testified, “a very unusual and not expected respo...
The crews of the Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol fought to the bitter end, as did the cadets of the mechanics school, the torpedo detachment and the communications unit. The next day, as an irony of history, the Bolsheviks celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Paris Commune: "On March 17th...
The post-presidency is not written into the American Constitution. But every president knows that the White House isn’t forever. They need to believe that life after power is possible, and that life doesn’t end with the job that will be the first line of their obituaries. ...
George W. Bush did before him. Trump has understood this since 2016. But we have no evidence that Biden does. The chief concern for Latinos is the future of their children — they want their sons and daughters to get a good education and attain economic opportunities, they want to raise ...
Allies believe he is tryingto position himself for his next act — one that could land him back in office. “He wants to get elected to something,”John Catsimatidis, the Republican business owner, campaign donor and WABC radio show host, told Playbook. “He feels that he got a raw deal...