Новости за 15.03.2016

An unusual kind of storm has blown into the City by the Lake, one that threatens the continued hegemony of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, as well as Chicago’s top prosecutor, Anita Alvarez, and the police force whose racist violence they have enabled. Beginning with community outrage over Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke’s killing of black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, the storm gathered strength when the dash cam video of the shooting was released in November 2015, after being suppressed by the city for 13 months. Читать дальше...

America needs a New Democratic Party.

No, I don’t mean a Democratic Party made new by a restored commitment to liberal idealism (although that would be useful, too). I mean an American version of Canada’s NDP: an explicitly socialist party that can win on a regional basis, credibly compete on a national basis and actually win on issues that matter.

The leftist debate on electoral activism is depressingly reductive. It’s either be the “left-wing of the possible” within the Democratic party or immediately form a third party... Читать дальше...