Advertisements At Responsible Statecraft, I discuss the letter to Joe Biden from over 100 groups calling for a new policy that addresses Palestinian rights. You can find the press release about the letter at this link. You can find the text of the letter at this one. You can also signContinue Reading
Advertisements Matthew Yglesias, the blogger and journalist at Vox, sent out a twitter storm on Sunday that was one of the best summaries of the current state of the Democratic primary I can imagine. In fifteen quick tweets, he really nailed crucial points. Yet, despite Yglesias’ skills with concision, it’sContinue Reading
Defeating Trump is not hard. Any honestly nominated Democrat (except maybe Biden, who’s just too horrible a campaigner, as I’ve pointed out in the past), conservative or progressive, could beat him. But by giving people a choice between Trump and a thoroughly dishonest party machine (and let’s recall, Republicans have not done similar things. They don’t have to because they don’t give their voters any options outside of oligarchs and kleptocrats), combined with their sheer incompetence, Democrats will re-elect Trump.Continue Reading
The conditions for a two-state vision, such as the one Bill Clinton envisioned in his late and unlamented Parameters, are now two decades in the past. We must start basing our goals on current conditions. The supporters of Israeli policies have been doing that for years while we live in the past. And that’s why they’ve been winning.Continue Reading
If you’re supporting Biden only because you think he has the best chance or is the “safe” pick, you couldn’t be more wrong, and that notion is the most likely path to the unthinkable: four more years of Donald Trump’s racism, stupidity, nastiness, and ineptitude. We can’t afford it.Continue Reading
