The American right used to focus its anger on the USSR but now it seeks enemies at home and part of that is opposing aid to our democratic ally, Ukraine.
Thomas Geoghegan
Thomas Geoghegan is a lawyer and author of the forthcoming The History of Democracy Has Yet To Be Written: How We Have To Learn To Govern All Over Again, to be published in October by Belt Publishing.
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That Time I Ran for Congress
Yes, I got creamed. But everybody should try it once.
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The Sound and the Fury Is the Book for Our Political Moment
How Faulkner’s four narrators delineate Biden-era constituencies.
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How Nancy Pelosi Can Help Fix the Senate
The House speaker is in a perfect position to push for making the other chamber of Congress more democratic.
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How Voters Can Help Manage America’s Largest Companies
House Democrats should introduce legislation to let the government put directors on the boards of big banks and budding oligopolies.
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Want to Expand Social Security? Fight Climate Change
Democrats can peel away Trump supporters by making retirement more affordable, and they can pay for it with a carbon tax.
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Judge Gorsuch and What Could Have Been
Since the 1970s, I spent my career hoping to one day witness the return of a liberal Supreme Court. Now I’ll never have the chance.
