Chile: Former Student Leader Wins Presidency
The people of Chile are expunging the last traces of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. They elected Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old member of the Chilean...
Category : Elections
Jennifer Berkshire: Will “Parent Rights” Be a Winning Issue for the GOP?
Jennifer Berkshire wrote a fascinating article in The New Republic about the politics and history behind the “parent rights” issue. She reminds us that the...
Texas: What Do Masks, Books, CRT, and Transgender Rights Have in Common?
Since this post was written in Texas by a Texan, you may have a clue about what these diverse phenomena have in common: They are...
Jacobin: The Republican Plan to Undermine Fair Elections
Republican-controlled legislatures are passing bills to cement their control of elections even when they lose the popular vote. They have gerrymandered voting districts for their...
Why Are Republican Leaders Killing Their Base By Spreading Misinformation About Vaccines?
NPR reported the results of a survey that correlated COVID death rates in thousands of counties by political affiliations. The counties carried by Trump in...
Grumpy Old Teacher: DeSantis Would Be Worse Than Trump
Blogger Grumpy Old Teacher (GOT) explains the competition between Donald Trump and Florida Ron DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 (both want to...
Arizona Republic Exposes Trump’s Frenzied Efforts to Overturn Arizona’s 2020 Vote
The Arizona Republic conducted an intensive investigation of the effort by the Trump campaign and discovered some fascinating details. Rusty Bowers was talking on his...
Thom Hartmann: The Day Our Democracy Was on the Brink
Thom Hartmann is a journalist who writes a regular commentary, the Hartmann report. He wrote this on November 20. — The singlemost ransacked office in...
Olivia Little: Unmasking “Moms for Liberty”
Olivia Little of MediaMatters for America investigated a rightwing group called “Moms for Liberty” and posted her findings online. She writes: Moms for Liberty, a...
Dan Greenberg: How Teachers in My Ohio Community Beat Back the Attack on Our School Board
Dan Greenberg is a teacher in Ohio and a member of the board of the Network for Public Education. He teaches high school English in...