ANDREW MOSS – VA nurses are fighting on two fronts for their patients’ safety and well-being: for a restoration of collective bargaining rights and for the needed funding that will keep the VA intact as a health provider. They’re carrying the fight into the courts, into Congress (on behalf of labor-friendly legislation), and onto the National Mall and media recognition.
Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?
MARK ENGLER and PAUL ENGLER – Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.
The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani From Becoming New York’s Mayor
NORMAN SOLOMON – The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York last Tuesday. “Those who own the country ought to govern it,” Jay insisted. But now, oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.
Great Tactic: The Highway Overpass Is Our Public Square
TAMAR WYSCHOGROD – I’m part of a Visibility Brigade, the rush-hour resistance groups that take to highway overpasses to display protest messages for all to see.
For the Next Steps with Iran, Let’s Work on an International Diplomatic Solution
DR. ALLEN PIETROBON – History has shown us that, in a moment defined by the overwhelming tensions that nuclear weapons create, sometimes the most powerful weapon of all is the strength of international dialogue and agreement.
The Descent of Republicanism into Christian Nationalism and Delusions of Grandeur
BOB TOPPER – A number of major problems began when the Republican Party became theocratic. Democracy requires rational debate guided by facts, and it achieves progress through compromise. But the religious right eschews rational debate for they are guided by belief, the acceptance that things are true when they are not supported by fact. They reject for instance the fact of global warming and accept, without evidence, that Trump won the 2020 election. So, unlike the Republican Party of Eisenhower, Goldwater, Reagan, or George H.W. Bush, today’s theocratic party is unable to find common ground and is thus unable to govern–instead they attempt to rule.