Topic: U.S. Politics

  • Obama agradece su re-elección

    La facilidad con que Barack Obama cede terreno ante los republicanos, pateando a su propia base en los dientes, es a estas alturas indiscutible.

  • The thanks they get for voting Obama

    Barack Obama's willingness to give ground to Republicans while kicking the Democrats' base in the teeth has come into particularly sharp focus.

  • Obama's favorite billionaire

    The president's nominee for commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, is involved in a constellation of ugly bourgeois misdoings.

  • The real disability myth

    An episode of This American Life repeated smears about government disability programs usually mouthed by right-wingers.

  • From red to blue in Texas?

    Political analysts say the tide is turning against the Republican Party in Texas. But how different would the Democrats be?

  • Con amigos como estos...

    El presupuesto propuesto por la administración Obama es un histórico asalto sobre uno de los programas más populares del gobierno.

  • With friends like this, who needs Republicans?

    The Obama administration's budget proposal represents a historic assault on one of the government's most popular programs: Social Security.

  • Un gran, mal acuerdo

    El más reciente acuerdo presupuestario podrá haber evitado un cierre total del gobierno, pero por seguro apilará más austeridad sobre los trabajadores.

  • A "grand bargain" that's a bad deal for workers

    Washington's latest budget deal might have avoided a total "shutdown" of the government, but it's sure to heap more austerity on workers.

  • Defendamos el derecho al voto

    En una amenaza para al derecho a votar de los afroamericanos, la Corte Suprema podría anular una parte fundamental de la Ley del Derecho Electoral.

  • Undoing the right to vote

    The Supreme Court may overturn a critical part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act--but that's only the latest threat to African Americans' right to vote.

  • Vassar takes on the bigots

    More than 1,000 Vassar students and community members turned out to counter the hate of the Westboro Baptist Church.

  • The austerity vs. austerity debate

    The partisan battles in Washington hide a bipartisan agreement--that there is no alternative to austerity, and the only differences are over the scale.

  • Esperanzas vacías

    La prensa dice que en su discurso El Estado de la Unión, Obama dejo claras las progresistas prioridades, pero cuidado... el presidente prepara más austeridad.

  • Hollowed-out hope

    The media say Obama's State of the Union speech took a stand for progressive issues--but the president is getting ready for a second term of austerity.

  • Killing the post office

    Thousands of postal jobs are in danger with the U.S. Postal Service's decision to move to five-day-a-week delivery.

  • Don't be like Mikes

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg always seems to be out of money, while Entrepreneur Michael Bloomberg is rolling in it.

  • ¿Obama gira a la izquierda?

    La esperanza que algunos comentaristas liberales tienen en que Barack Obama sea en su segundo término un luchador por la justicia social es una quimera.

  • A left turn in the second term?

    The hope of some liberal commentators that Barack Obama will transform into a fighting progressive is wishful thinking.

  • Why the right wing clings to its guns

    American "gun culture" is not primarily about the power of the gun lobby as such--it is about the politics of paranoia and race.

  • Sticking to their Glocks

    Sure, Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are maniacs--but the liberal supporters of gun control have their own myth of the Good Guys with Guns.

  • The left and the vote in 2012

    A member of the International Socialist Organization responds to a critique about the 2012 election and the left vote.

  • Stealing from seniors so the rich can get richer

    Call it Robin Hood in reverse: The super-rich get an estate tax bonanza--while politicians of both parties get ready to cut Social Security and Medicare.

  • Obama cumple con la patronal

    Las concesiones hechas por el presidente Obama a los republicanos para llegar a un acuerdo fiscal subrayan las prioridades pro empresariales de los demócratas.

  • The empire's new clothes

    Obama's nominees to run the Pentagon and CIA underline how a Democratic president, once seen as antiwar, has rebranded U.S. imperialism.