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The Democrats are in deep doo-doo – and so are the democratic processes they claim to care about so much.
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The Democrats are in deep doo-doo – and so are the democratic processes they claim to care about so much.
A discussion of 2024's presumptive presidential candidates: Clown A, Clown B, and Clown C.
As Earth approaches the conclusion of another journey around the sun – or the Sun around Earth, if you subscribe to alternative facts - and the year 5345 on the Jacobin Calendar draws to a close, we pause to contemplate the global events that distracted our attention more than others.
Joe Biden, like every president since John Adams, wants you to believe he wields the power to improve the economy. Conversely, his detractors would have you believe that he bears sole responsibility for skyrocketing inflation and outrageously priced concert tickets.
Borrowing from the eponymous political term of the 1980's, Bidenomics would have you believe that Uncle Joe Biden is here to save the people from the evil capitalists.
Does the price of oil, and therefore gasoline, obey the laws of supply and demand? If not, who controls the production and price of oil?
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the last politically active member of the Papa Joe Kennedy Clan. Will his independent campaign for president crack the two-party system or will he be yet another footnote in the littany of also-rans?
On April 26, 2023 Tucker Carlson was invited, most unceremoniously, to leave FoxNews.
At the time of his ejection, Tucker was the single most-watched news host in U.S. history, begging the question, why did FoxNews exile the goose that laid the golden egg to the desert of podcasts and self-styled media analysts?
Per usual, the Jacobins have an angle that will not hear anywhere else.