The corporate takeover of American politics started with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard of.
Source: Opinion | How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began | Common Dreams
Category: American Republic
Jamie Raskin warns that the Electoral College ‘has become a danger’ to American democracy
The Failure of Reconstruction Is to Blame for the Weakness of American Democracy
A new book argues that the American right emerged out of a backlash to multiracial democracy following the Civil War. This is only partly true: reactionaries did not just fear democracy, they feared the economic redistribution former slaves associated with it.
Source: The Failure of Reconstruction Is to Blame for the Weakness of American Democracy
It’s Time to Rethink Our Reliance on the Supreme Court
Together we can work toward combating Christian nationalism and continue striving for a more inclusive America—with or without the Supreme Court of the United States.
Source: Opinion | It’s Time to Rethink Our Reliance on the Supreme Court | Christopher Godshall-Bennett
Veteran sociologist Frances Fox Piven fears the US may still ‘become a fascist country’
No More Thanksgivings: Glen Ford’s Challenge to America
His critique of the holiday is that the mythology surrounding Thanksgiving serves as a justification for our nation’s founding genocide of its native peoples and a validation of white supremacy.
Source: No More Thanksgivings: Glen Ford’s Challenge to America – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 