Trump lawyers assert, in court, that as president he would have the right to assassinate political opponents. The GOP is flat-out embracing insurrectionists. Here is how we – Portside moderators – assess the danger to democracy. And how you can help.
Trump lawyers assert, in court, that as president he would have the right to assassinate political opponents. The GOP is flat-out embracing insurrectionists. Here is how we – Portside moderators – assess the danger to democracy. And how you can help.
The current presidential election is the most consequential so far — because in 2024, we get the democracy we vote for.
Attempt to weaken the new president’s parliamentary group backfires as his Semilla party assumes presidency of Congress.
Trump lawyers assert, in court, that as president he would have the right to assassinate political opponents. The GOP is flat-out embracing insurrectionists. Here is how we – Portside moderators – assess the danger to democracy. And how you can help.
The harsh reality is that the only way to get past this crisis for our democracy is to go through it. Our institutions were built to survive this, but only if we use them. Abdication, capitulation, surrender? That’s how we guarantee democracy loses.
Part 2 of our conversation with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletcher and labor historian Jeff Schuhrke about union calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the 2024 election and more.
Keeping Trump off the ballot would be an affront to democracy. Denying people the opportunity to vote for him is going to make him stronger.
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
Reviewer Pele says author Mbembe defines “necropolitics” “as the political making of spaces and subjectivities in an in-between of life and death.” Necropolitical practices have their origins in colonialism and the slave plantation.
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