When they debated in South Carolina, even Sanders, a gentleman to the end, couldn’t help but point out that, eight years ago, it was Hillary, not he, who ran against Obama for the Democratic nomination. He might also have added that it was she, not he, who kept the fight going well past the time that it was clear that she was bound to lose.

After he was elected President, Obama and the Clintons, each for their own reasons, found it expedient to put Hillary inside the Obama administration. And so, she became Obama’s Secretary of State. This was, to put it mildly, a bad move – not for Hillary, but for the world. More

The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated.

Jobs offshoring benefitted Wall Street, corporate executives, and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital gains and to executives in the form of “performance bonuses.” Wall Street benefitted from the bull market generated by higher profits. More

American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times. The politics of terror, a culture of fear, and the spectacle of violence dominate America’s cultural apparatuses and legitimate the ongoing militarization of public life and American society. More