Our fight is here. Always here. Say No to police brutality. Say No to war. Just before 7:00am on February 2, Minneapolis police shot and killed a young Black man, Amir Locke, while carrying out a "no knock" warrant. …

Political lessons of the pandemic Here in the US we first confronted covid at a moment in time when our political Left was only beginning to emerge from four decades of Reaganism (as practiced by both Democrats and Republicans) and an even longer period of anti-communism. So early in the…

It’s January 6 and the center of political discussion is, of course, the Capitol Hill riots that occurred one year ago. But as much as I hear it said that those events posed a major threat to political democracy in the US, I notice that the Biden Justice Department has…

For the last two decades a prominent and recurring theme in the US Left’s response to the US government’s phony war on terror has been to expose the role that the US CIA played creating the Taliban in Afghanistan. The US role in financing, arming, and training the warlords that…

Don’t get suckered into the latest US war moves against Russia. Our fight is here at home. Many people of good will are rightly focused right now on the crisis of racist policing in the US. For Black and Brown people policing is a crisis because of the daily revelations…

When I was in law school, friends were surprised when I announced that I planned to use my first option for an elective course to study business law (technically, Business Organizations). I went to law school to learn to be a labor and employment lawyer, they said, why would I…

Thinking about the Capitol Building riots, it occurred to me that an event that had a big influence on my personal politics also reflects the problem that those of us on the Left must confront today. In the Summer of 1980, I was a college student at University of Connecticut…

The best definition of the word “politics” that I have ever heard is that it is the struggle within a society over the distribution of resources. Certainly that definition holds if you look at recent fights over pandemic-related relief and economic stimulus packages: the super-wealthy and the big corporations used…

Defeating Trump Is Not Enough In recent discussions I have discovered that even though the Democratic Party presidential primaries are already fading into a distant and albeit disturbing memory, they are still resurrected to “explain” why we ended up with Joe Biden as the only effective alternative to another four…