This Is Why I Respect And Admire AOC And Rashida Somewhere along the way (let’s say around 1993), the Democratic Party careerists— those...

What Will The Dems Do When The Post-MAGA GOP Doesn't Run A Sociopath? Three days before the 1936 election. FDR addressed a rally at...

Let's Take A Look— From Plato To Tolstoy To Chomsky Let’s go back to high school for a minute. When we read  War and Peace — in my case—...

And Not Just Trump Aside from relying to get Trump elected, the world’s richest person, fascist and heinous criminal Elon Musk, is also...

Who Remembers Hearst's Jihad Against FDR In 1936? Born into great wealth, William Randolph Heart dropped out of college— actually he was...

To Republican strategists and their politician clients, every Democrat, no matter how moderate or conservative, has been labeled and...

Democrats— and normal people who don’t want to see Trump get anywhere near the White House ever again— are getting increasingly all...

We Need To Change Them First— The Way The Dems Did In The '30s During his interview with Chris Hayes on Friday, Bernie called out...

Yesterday I mentioned I had had dinner with Stephanie Kelton the evening before. I forgot to mention a couple of things we talked about....

Polls of historians show that only one relatively contemporary president gives George Washington and Abraham Lincoln a run for their...

How did the CIA become what it is?

Yesterday we started the day off with a long, winding look at how the Democratic Party has tried to play both sides of the street— Wall...

If Trump Runs On Medicare-For-All, He Could Win Yesterday, historian Harvey J Kaye tweeted a couple of paragraphs about America’s last...

Yesterday, tangential to writing a post about a blue wave, I noticed that Warren County, Iowa had never voted for FDR, not once in the 4...

When the 1930 elections came around, the Republicans were still in control of both chambers. The effects of the Great Depression that...

During his last State of the Union address (1944), FDR proposed an Economic Bill of Rights or Second Bill of Rights. His point was that...

I don’t think most Americans under the retirement age knew anything about Charles Lindbergh before Phil Roth’s alternative history novel,...

A corrupt and less than useless DNC leadership is all in on nominating Biden again— and hostile to the idea of anyone challenging him....

Some overpaid consultant came up with this ad idea (above), probably a team of consultants: Trump endorsed Dr. Oz and now "Dr. Oz is...

In 1928 Herbert Hoover (R) faced off against conservative Democrat Al Smith in a lesser-of-two-evils presidential election. Hoover...