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How Bad Does It Have to Get Before the DNC Declares an Emergency?
By Norman Solomon Midway through this month, Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries sent out a fundraising text saying that he “recently announced a 10-point plan to take on Trump and the Republicans.” But the plan was no more recent than early February, just two weeks after President Trump’s inauguration. It’s hardly reassuring that the House minority…
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How to Fight Trump Without Caving to Corporatists
By Richard Eskow and Norman Solomon RICHARD ESKOW: In a recent column you asked, “What’s preventing a united front against the Trump regime?” You say, “America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime.” I get the “wrecking ball,” but why do we need a united front? What’s wrong…
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The Careerism That Enabled Biden’s Reelection Run Still Poisons the Democratic Party
By Norman Solomon / The Nation Original Sin is out after several months of drumroll, setting out to be the definitive book about—in the words of its subtitle—President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. The publisher has trumpeted a media report that it is “the book Biden allies fear the most,” promising revelations while…
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The U.S. Left Vietnam 50 Years Ago Today. The Media Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson.
By Norman Solomon / The Guardian The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about US media coverage of the war is locked into the faulty premise that news outlets were pivotal in causing Americans to…