Politics

Since 1956, few presidential candidates have managed to get more than 51 percent of the vote in national elections.

Even if whole regions of the country vote overwhelmingly against a president, they are still forced to submit to four years of that president’s rule-by-decree.

Lena Petrova interviews Ryan McMaken on World Affairs In Context.

With Trump as president, will we move in the direction of capitalism, or will we move in the direction of socialism?

While many are busy offering intellectually-deficient reasons as to why Kamala Harris lost—sexism, racism, Nazism, hatred of democracy—Lipton Matthews explains some simple truths as to why Harris lost.

Historical revisionism is nothing new, and recent attempts to label an “antiracist” approach to history have wrongly been called “revisionist.” To better understand revisionism, one must first be grounded in reality, then apply reality-based thought to studying the past.

The Fed wants independence so it can serve the interests of the banker class. There is no higher principle here. There is only power.

Ryan and Tho talk about what Donald Trump must do if he wants to actually fix our mounting economic problems of stagnation, debt, and inflation. 

For the second time in eight years, Donald Trump defied the expectations of the “experts” and the ambitions of the ruling classes of Washington, DC. 

The watchword among progressives this election season is: “Nothing less than our democracy is at stake.” In truth, democracy itself is not in danger, but one can accurately say that “democracy,” as practiced in the US, endangers our lives.