It’s time to end the war on drug users — repeal the heavy penalties for possession; pardon the millions of nonviolent offenders; replace mass incarceration with mandatory drug treatment; restore voting rights to convicts and ex-convicts.
How the Trump years drove this one-time establishment insider to call for ‘nonviolent political revolution'
The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal, Verso Books (2019)
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You cannot outflank the right by adopting its promises, that way you only end up as its handmaiden.
Ben Fountain's "Beautiful Country Burn Again" revisits (and tries to make historical sense of) the convulsions of the 2016 election as prelude to--and forewarning of--the perfervid run-up in Trump country to the 2018 midterm contests.
When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.
A new report offers a bracing autopsy of the 2016 election—and lays out a plan for revitalization.
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Complaining About Hillary's Campaign Book Is a Huge Waste of the Progressive Movement's Time.
Why aren't they focusing on the anti-democratic practices that split the Democratic Party?
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