BYSharon Zhang, Truthout Early in the morning on Wednesday, President Donald Trump declared victory from within the White House, despite the fact that there are still over a million votes yet to be counted in key […]
BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout Dirge /derj/ noun: A lament for the dead; music accompanying a funeral rite Whatever the outcome of this election, no matter what happens from right now unto the final breaking of the world, one […]
BYNadine Naber & Atef Said, Truthout Leftists across the nation are terrified about the aftermath of the U.S. election. Whether Donald Trump wins or loses, many are deeply anxious about the possibility of far right white supremacist violence. […]
BYSasha Abramsky, Truthout In 2016, the total vote out of Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, was 1.3 million. In Dallas County, it was 770,000. In Travis County, home of the city of Austin, over 477,000. Four […]
BY: George Yancy, Truthout Our very democracy has been on the edge of catastrophe, not only because of a president who lies as a way of life, but because of many who have come to accept […]
BYAnjali Kamat, Revea This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast. This […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: tom_bullock – CC BY 2.0 The cable news talking heads seem obsessed with Joe Biden’s “significant” lead over Donald Trump in the national polls – as if this lead signifies a certain […]
BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Permanent Free Speech Wall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph Source: Daniel Rothamel – CC BY 2.0 There’s a long history of faux outrage in reactionary U.S. media regarding the alleged threat of “leftist propaganda” in higher education. […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Still from Mel Brooks’ “High Anxiety.” + I gave up trying to predict elections long ago. But my gut read on this election has always been that the harder Trump tries to […]
BY WILL SOLOMON The simplest answer may be inertia, and time—essentially, nothing—but for better or worse I have a particular fixation on this question, and there is no denying Greenwald has become, shall we say, more […]