LAWRENCE WITTNER – The people of the world have a great deal to gain by strengthening international organizations that are genuinely committed to fostering peace.
How Bad Does It Have to Get Before the DNC Declares an Emergency?
NORMAN SOLOMON – Right now, the Democratic Party appears to be stuck in a never-ending logjam. The only real possibilities for major improvement will come from progressives who make demands and organize to back them up with grassroots power.
Touching Insight into the Reality of the Gaza War
ROBERT C. KOEHLER – The slaughter goes on, usually in the name of war, which reduces human life to, at best, a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians – dead children – are collateral damage, which means they’re nothing at all.
In Trump’s America, Which Side Are You On?
BRAD WOLF – In 1958, legendary peace activist Philip Berrigan asked a youth retreat group the following question: “What’s it going to be with you? Are you going to go through life playing both ends against the middle, playing cozy, not committing yourself, sitting on the fence?” That question is as potent, and as dangerous, today as it was then. For us, and for the victims in the breach.
How to Fight Trump Without Caving to Corporatists
RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW and NORMAN SOLOMON – The DNC should provide leadership at times like these. But there’s still no leadership, several months into a second Trump regime that’s much worse than the first. There’s energy to oppose, but it’s uncoordinated. James Hightower charts the way: the agitator gets the dirt out in the washing machine; and there’s nothing in the middle of the road except yellow lines and dead armadillos.
Trump is Trying to Reverse the New Deal
RICHARD D wOLFF – The class politics of Trump carry forward the actions of his predecessors across the last century. The details, not the goals, vary with the circumstances. It is worth remembering that in all empires, when their rise inevitably turns into decline, those who accumulated the greatest wealth and power use these resources to retain their position. They thereby offload the costs of decline onto the middle and lower classes. The latter suffer more and face the consequences first. Trump’s first budget proposals starkly exhibit this offloading. For most empires, such offloading proves socially divisive and ends very badly.