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How the Democratic Party Became a Vehicle of Aristocracy
In the second part of a two-part interview, Thomas Frank explores how anti-populism made liberals comfortable with plutocracy. ...
Benjamin Madley and a California Genocide
Robert Scheer sits down with professor and author Benjamin Madley to talk about a little known part of California's history....
Don’t Believe Anything You Were Told About Populism
Thomas Frank examines the history of American populism, and how it was distorted by Democrats and co-opted by Republicans. ...
The Real Reason the Blue Wave Never Materialized
Dennis Kucinich, former Ohio congressman and mayor of Cleveland, weighs in on what the Democratic Party keeps getting wrong....
The Only Meaningful Way to Save American Journalism
Publicly-funded media models make a lot of Americans nervous, but Victor Pickard argues it may be the only way to repair our tattered democracy....
Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History Through Its Military Bases
Political anthropologist David Vine argues that the most visible evidence of the country’s global empire are the thousands of military installations it has around the world. ...
America’s Prized Legal System Only Works for the Rich
Attorney Ronald Goldfarb offers a scathing indictment of American law and lawyers in his new book, The Price of Justice. ...
Big Oil weaponized our judicial system against an attorney and the Indigenous people he represented
The epic battle by Steve Donziger to get Chevron to pay a $9.5 billion judgment he won in 2011 for its “mass industrial poisoning” of Indigenous Amazonian tribes in Ecuador has lef...
Wrestling Back Privacy From the Jaws of Big Tech
James Steyer is taking on Mark Zuckerberg and other tech barons and he wants to empower the rest of us to do the same....
The Socialist Lesson Bernie Sanders Left Out of His Message
Rabbi Michael Lerner, a lifelong progressive, talks about his new book and what he found lacking in the Democratic Socialist’s presidential campaign. ...
How Today’s Uprisings Compare to the 1960s Rebellions
The movements of the sixties, which are captured in detail in Mike Davis and Jon Wiener’s new book Set the Night on Fire, are seen as wildly successful. Is it possible Black Lives ...
Trump Is the Sweaty Armpit of Monopoly Capitalism
Journalist David Dayen examines how the greatest danger to our American society doesn’t come from the White House, but from a few obscenely powerful corporations. ...
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