NO BILLIONAIRES, NO FASCISTS, NO WARMONGERS There’s probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism. Actually, imagining just a kinder, more equitable version of capitalism, one in which the existence of elite wealth is tempered by the peoples’ right to health care, a college education, affordable
Author: Mark T. Harris
From Reproductive Rights to the Opioid Crisis and More, the Promise of Single Payer With an authoritarian, right-wing President in office who disdains everything from women’s reproductive rights to basic climate science, who touts military coups in Venezuela and genocide in Iran and yucks it up with crowds of racist louts who want to shoot
In the San Francisco Bay Area many years ago, I was once walking through an indoor suburban shopping mall south of the city. There from a distance I encountered the scene of a woman, two young children in tow, impulsively jamming an empty stroller into the side of the older child, a boy who looked
It was in 1947 that the poet W.H. Auden published his famous book-length poem, The Age of Anxiety, which a year later would win the Pulitzer Prize. After Nazism and a catastrophic world war, nuclear genocide in Japan, and the launch of the Cold War, it was no surprise that the term soon became a popular
[From the Archive]. This older article on right-wing media, just resurrected for my website, includes reference to the first Gulf War launched in 1990 by the first President Bush. Discussing the corrosive cultural impact of right-wing talk radio, the 2006 article is a reminder that the seeds for the present hate-filled, demagogic politics of the Trump
