Author: Norman Solomon

[This article was originally published by Truthout.] By Norman Solomon Election results were still pouring in Tuesday night when pundits on cable news channels began to revive a media refrain that conventional wisdom has been aiming at Democratic Party leaders for decades: Stay away from the left and move toward the center. We should expect…

[This article was originally published by The Nation.] By Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, Pia Gallegos, Sam McCann and Donna Smith In October 2017, a team of progressive researchers published “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis,” which probed the causes of the disastrous 2016 election defeat. The report came in the wake of the party leadership’s…

[This article was originally published by The Nation.] By Norman Solomon The most widely acclaimed TV series ever about the Nazi occupation of France is a relentless epic with little use for the familiar images of craven collaborators and selfless resisters. Un village français focuses on a fictional rural community that endures a tightening vise of German…