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Resistance 2.0

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.

How Trump Avoided the Mainstream Media — and Won the Presidency

Aidan Ryan The Boston Globe
“The real threat to the mainstream media as we know it is that there now exists a successful model for avoiding them that didn’t before Nov. 5,” said Michael Socolow, a media historian and professor of journalism at the University of Maine.

Samir Amin on the Theory of Multipolarity

Monthly Review Editors, Orinoco Tribune. Popular Resistance - Strategize!
For Amin, the struggle against imperialism required a delinking from the law of value on the world level centered in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo, and its replacement by a more “polycentric” or “multipolar” world order...

Exit Right

Gabriel Winant Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

Michael Podhorzer Weekend Reading
The real headline of this election isn’t about Trump’s victory. It’s about how the Federalist Society coalition of plutocrats and theocrats has all but completed its mission to repeal and replace the 20th Century by judicial fiat.