Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Reality is not always probable, or likely” Borges tells us, but we are yet, presumptuously and foolishly, driven to find a logic and its calculus, e... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Ask yourself how somebody like Donald Trump ever gets within cheating distance of the Oval Office in the first place. – Pete Buttigieg, Second Democr... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org The greater divisiveness of the various warring factions in Game of Thrones places our own national divisiveness on to small, less frightening screen... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “[B]reaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The good news is that at the end of 6 years, after America has been made GREAT again and I leave the beautiful White House (do you think the people... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they th... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “A White House free of congressional oversight will likely behave far differently than one that knows it can be the subject of congressional investig... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The conventional wisdom nowadays is that Trump will be hard to defeat in 2020. Needless to say, in a sane society, he would lose in a landslide run... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org President Trump’s chances of planting the seed of rebellion against Nancy Pelosi within the Democratic Party has a better chance of success than the... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “[Y]ou shouldn’t take irreversible steps as the result of a reversible Presidency.” – Rob Malley, quoting the French view of President Trump,... Read more
The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform. [...]
Democrats wanted to end the electability debate. After Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat, a conversation that has frustrated and foiled two generations of female candidates rages on. [...]
In an interview, Roy Cooper spoke about his legacy, how to appeal to Republicans and Democratic speculation that he might run for Senate or for president. [...]
The self-help author has twice run unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination. [...]
The Treasury secretary urged Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt limit. [...]
A fierce dispute erupted in the president-elect’s camp between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders including Elon Musk. [...]
