Since MaxSpeak thinks we are a "hive of Hillary-mania," even though I don't know of a single LGM frontpager who voted for Hillary Clinton (although I don't know who everyone voted for), let's take a voluntary poll. Did you commenters vote for Bernie Sanders or...
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Disputes over the political priorities of race and class, or race versus class, have been at the core of U.S. left politics for centuries. The standard left position has always.
Among other services, Senator Bernie Sanders has freed up some banned political terminology. Suddenly we can talk about socialism and the ruling class. Can Karl Marx be far behind? Considering.
Last fall, OG economics blogger MaxSpeak predicted that Trump would be the Republican nominee. I still thought that was enormously unlikely, so I took him up on his offer to bet. My end of the bet was to offer him the keys to LGM for...
POP QUIZ The figure above is: a. The price of a the median one-bedroom apartment in Park Slope. b. The amount Ryan Howard has been paid per RBI since 2011..
What if, instead of putting Trump's brain in Bill the Cat's body, they put Bill the Cat's brain in Trump's.
As Atrios always says, leaving aside the merits of the theater critic approach to political punditry (which have always struck me as scant), most of its practitioners are really terrible even on their own terms. Maureen Dowd, of course, has a ratio of theater criticism:actual...
To what extent Bernie Sanders' success among young people was due to especially skilled campaign staffers, I cannot really say, but I suppose it's an encouraging sign that Sanders' director.
BERNIE DEAD-ENDER #1: "What have you done for the revolution today, comrade?" BERNIE DEAD-ENDER #2: "I sent 50 BLISTERING tweets each to five women who remain unconvinced that the question.
One more postmortem of the 2016 primary. Joe Burns writes in Jacobin that what labor needs to learn from the Sanders campaign is to reintegrate radicalism into its thinking. A lot of it is just revisiting the anti-communist purges of the CIO and decrying the...
The Donald's campaign is pretty much an empty shell: Donald Trump, reports Maggie Haberman, has fired Corey Lewandowski in what could be seen as either the most recent campaign shake-up,.
Rev. Ben Chavis, right, raises his fist as fellow protesters are taken to jail at the Warren County PCB landfill near Afton, North Carolina on Thursday,.