September 2024

People’s Will or Donors’ Will?

Election 2024 Commentary by Belén Fernández In the aftermath of United States President Joe Biden’s train wreck of a performance in the June 27 presidential debate with Donald Trump, Democratic Party donors went into a…


Stop Using the Term ‘Centrist’

It doesn’t mean what you think it does Commentary by Arwa Mahdawi If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy, wrote Orwell. That applies today more than ever. I…


Organizing The South

UE Local 150 Convention in Whitakers, NC By UE Local 150 With the slogan “Resist, Restore and Re­vit­alize!” the 13th Biennial Convention of state­wide UE Local 150 convened at the Frank­linton Center at Bricks on…




Project 2025 to Gut Checks and Balances

By Colin Seeberger The new authoritarian playbook would devastate residents of North Carolina in many ways. Project 2025 is a plan to gut America’s system of checks and balances in order to enact an extreme,…


Kamala Harris Needs to Mobilize Voters

Around Class – Not Race Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara How things can change in a matter of weeks. In early July, populism seemed to rule the day in American politics. Donald Trump selected JD…


This Election is About the Rich Stealing

From the Public By Sonali Kolhatkar There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trump’s law that cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans…


“Pop-up” Super PACS Keep Voters in the Dark

By Campaign Legal Center Transparency in elections is vital to ensuring that voters know who is spending money to influence their vote. Yet wealthy special interests undermine transparency through secret spending groups (sometimes called “dark…


Proportional Representation

What would it look like in a state legislature? By Protect Democracy Proportionally elected legislatures could yield more competitive, representative, accountable, and authoritarian-resistant state politics. Reform efforts in the United States are often successfully piloted…