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By Norman Solomon Sometimes a party’s leader seems to symbolize an enduring malaise. For Democrats in 2018, that institutional leader is Tom Perez.  While serving as secretary of labor during President Obama’s second term, Perez gained a reputation as an advocate for workers and civil rights. That image may have helped him win a narrow…

By Norman Solomon The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin, has become a big star in national media by routinely denouncing Russia as a dire threat to American democracy. The senior senator from Maryland personifies the highly dangerous opportunism that has set in among leading Democrats on the subject of Russia.…

[This article was originally published by Truthdig.] By Norman Solomon Oligarchy prevents democracy. That explains the gist of why the United States became more undemocratic in 2017. With vast income inequality and corporate power, this country’s oligarchy keeps consolidating itself — largely hidden in plain sight — normalized and embossed on the wallpaper of mass-media echo…

[This article was originally published by Truthdig.] By Norman Solomon He was one of the most acclaimed—and ultimately destructive—liberal icons in American history. Four decades after his death, Democratic politicians rarely mention his name. Yet Hubert H. Humphrey haunts the Democratic Party. The ghost of HHH is hovering over a party led by people who…

By Norman Solomon For several months we’ve been hearing a crescendo of outcries that Russia used social media to sway the 2016 presidential election. The claim has now been debunked by an unlikely source — one of the most Russiagate-frenzied big media outlets in the United States, the Washington Post. Far away from the media echo…