Alienation is threatening democracy. Only solidarity can save it.CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan VucciPolitical systems come and go, but the political animal remains. No matter what historical era or region of the world you look at, you’ll find the same blind urges and anxieties lying just beneath the surface of public affairs. The election of President Donald Trump may have been something new in American … [Read more...]

Following withdrawal from the Paris agreement, Trump’s EPA chief refuses to say whether he still believes climate change is a hoax.President Donald Trump listens as EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan WalshOn the first round of Sunday shows since President Donald Trump announced the United States’ … [Read more...]

One week later, the president still can’t be bothered.A small memorial for Srinivas Kuchibhotla is displayed outside Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kan., Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Orlin WagnerLast week, 32-year-old Indian immigrant Srinivas Kuchibhotla was murdered at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. The FBI is investigating the shooting that claimed his life — and which also wounded … [Read more...]

Brexit times five isn’t even the half of it.AP Photo/Richard DrewThis year’s election was a referendum on multiracial liberal democracy. Liberal democracy lost.It lost for a lot of reasons, some of which were predictable and some of which were not. It was predictable that African-American turnout would be artificially low in states like North Carolina, where years of voter suppression have reaped … [Read more...]