It started even before the Convention itself started. The New York City Democratic Socialists of America were preparing to hold their annual convention in the City, the organization’s highest democratic body where elected delegates would debate resolutions, constitutional amendments, endorsements of city council candidates, and officer elections. As such, it…

The Socialists in Office Committee is wrong — there was a clear socialist stance on CHIPS, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just didn’t take it. — I have become quite hesitant over the years to criticize New York representative and Democratic Socialists of America comrade Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because (1) she is so frequently criticized that criticism of her has become memetic, and (2) I frankly do not think that either her or most of her supporters…

One of the worst trends in feminist writing is “XYZ is a feminist issue” pieces. It is not difficult to portray something as a feminist issue because women are about half of our species, and so issues that affect people generally often affect women just as much if not more…

Judge Tanya Chutkan says she wants consequences for “a violent mob attempting to disrupt the peaceful transition of power,” but all her sentencing of Matthew Mazzocco does is promote the repression of political dissent. — When I saw the reasoning of Judge Tanya Chutkan for going against the prosecution’s sentencing recommendation and sentencing Matthew Mazzocco to 45 days in prison, particularly the justification of protecting “the peaceful transition of power,” I am reminded of what Martin Luther King Jr. once said in his book “Stride…

Connor Sheets at AL.com has a good piece out about the man who had a heart attack and died at the Capitol riot, with a specific focus on his transformation from union vice president and Obama supporter to gun-touting MAGA diehard. One of Greeson’s former coworkers at the Goodyear plant…

I have a complicated relationship with Glenn Greenwald. I unabashedly admire those who challenge tyranny at great personal risk, and in that respect Greenwald is very much someone I admire. …

It is possible that we reached peak super hero saturation in 2019 with the release of the Avengers: End Game movie, the climatic finale of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that successfully secured Hollywood’s enormous investment in the franchise by breaking all sorts of box office records in addition to the…

There is probably no intra-Left discourse that people are more tired of than the question of identity politics. But exhaustion with the question should not be mistaken with resolution. We have explored the vampire castle: some of us have exited it and others have claimed it as a fortress. But…

On November 24, 2020, a death warrant was signed by Purdue Pharma LP entering into a plea agreement to one charge of dual-object conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), and two charges of conspiracy to violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. While…