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The article discusses the notion of a Resistance movement against U.S. President Donald Trump in relation to branding. Topics include the lack of ideological coherence among the purported Resistance movement, the notion of political norms in relation to Trump's presidency, and the need for an adequate response to white supremacy in the U.S.

Doctor Kilari Anand Paul, the Indian-born Christian evangelical and founder of the United States-based Global Peace Initiative (GPI), is explaining how he convinced Guy Philippe, the leader of Haiti's rebel forces, to turn over a new leaf. It is an unbelievable story, growing progressively more unbelievable as the diminutive, almost wispy Paul details his scolding of the thuggish Philippe. Over the past two decades leading up to 2004, Paul, a self-described "Hindu-born follower of Jesus," has cultivated a peculiar specialty as spiritual adviser to the scum of the earth. Despite such high-profile interventions, Paul remains virtually unknown in the United States. The public face of religion in the United States, Paul and his supporters have found, looks nothing like that of a peculiar, self-promoting Indian minister. Blending tenets of Christianity with elements of social reform--including relentless criticism of government corruption, the dowry system, the caste system, and religious fanaticism in general--Paul's message earned him national attention. While speaking in Los Angeles, California, Paul became acquainted with the late Reverend E.V. Hill, who spiritually counseled Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Through Hill, Paul met Nelson Bunker Hunt, who is perhaps best known for attempting to corner the silver market in 1980.

Comments on the emergence of men's movements in the United States. American universities' offering of men's studies classes; Growth of the Men's Studies Association's membership; Creation of the male feminist group, the National Organization for Changing Men; Emergence of men's rights activists, sometimes referred to as Free Men; Differences between the men's studies crown and the feminist men; Mission of the National Coalition for Free Men; Different types of men who constitute the nominal men's movement.

Focuses on Republican racist David Duke. Insistence that his extremism is a thing of the past; Mention of the Duke declaration from the Louisiana House floor on racial or religious tolerance; Step to take an unequivocal moral stand against Duke; Argument that the Republican party should disavow Duke; Information that Duke is emerging as a probable Republican front-runner in the contest against Democratic Senator Bennett Johnson next year; Report that a clique of leading Republican lawmakers is actively working to legitimize Duke as mainstream conservative; Movement to table Duke's bill against minority set-aside contracts.

Focuses on the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and his capacity to organize boycotts. Distinction between a noble boycott and an old-fashioned shakedown; Career background of Jackson; Discussion on the PUSH campaign of Jackson related to corporate boycotts; Adoption of affirmative action by Jackson in his pursuit of quotas for black companies and professionals who deal with major corporations.

Presents information on issues which resulted due to the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Information that after the rigor mortis of the New Left, many of its former activists and sympathizers chose to get advanced degrees and ascend the academic ladder to professorships in the universities; Opinion of Ellen W. Schrecker, professor of history at Princeton University, that the temptation to trade the frustrations of politics for the pleasure of scholarship is strong; Reference to the book titled "No Ivory Tower," by Schrecker; Note on the way the history of American Communism is now being presented by post-New Left historians.

Expresses skepticism on the status given to late U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Details of the speeches given by U.S. President Ronald Reagan mentioning Jackson; Formation of "Coalition for a Democratic Majority" in honor of Jackson; Discussion on Jackson's position in defense, pro-labor stance and environmentalism.

Focuses on the political activity of the National Organization for Women in the United States during the mid-1980's. Reference to the book "A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett; History of liberal feminism; Successes of the egalitarian tradition of feminism from the 19th Amendment in 1920 to Roe vs. wade in 1973.

Explores the social, political and cultural issues related to scent and human capacity to smell. Difference in the olfactory propensities of French and Americans; Discussion on the growing anti-scent movement in the U.S.; Claim that racism has been predicated on the belief that one could detect the characteristic of another smell; Idea of philosopher Emmanuel Kant about human's sense of smell; Famous French political and historical figures who have unusual like or dislike toward a particular smell.

Discusses the gay rights movement at the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village. Description of the argument among gay leaders about the planning of Stonewall 25; Practice of Stonewall of indiscriminately linking the movement for gay equal rights with ay left-wing cause; Reference to the book "A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society"; Information on the first-generation post-Stonewall gay activists.

Examines the significance of the evangelical New Right in the Republican Presidential Convention in the U.S. Debate on the separation of church and state; Factors influencing the ascending importance of the religious right; Political involvement of religious leaders; Indications of politics and religious activity.

Comments on the Catholic Church's use of the pulpit and pastoral letters to create awareness for its positions on various social and political issues in the U.S. Background on the Church's social doctrine; Attention stirred by the bishops' draft pastoral letter on nuclear war; Institutional changes that have thrust politics into the center of Catholic life; Growth of the Church's institutional resources devoted to the concerns of social justice; Redirection of religious energy into the secular realm, particularly on the part of the clergy; Rise in the number of clerics and Church officials that are professionally involved in Church-sponsored social activism.

Presents an update on the U.S. economy and politics as of December 1977. Information on the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977; Ridicule of the act by Richard Nixon's former economic advisor, Herbert Stein; Information that the bill requires the President to file an economic report each year with Congress; Issue on the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; Plan of the Carter administration to help the U.S. steel companies by raising barriers against cheap steel imports.

Deals with the support of the National Organization for Women in the U.S. for the passage of laws against sex discrimination in employment. Provisions of the Equal Rights Amendment; Information on a government conference held in Houston, Texas on the issue of status of women in the society; Objective of the conference was to adopt a "National Plan of Action" for women; Reaction of some women movement leaders to the government's espousal of the movements.

Comments on the behavior of the young generation during the year 1960 to 1969 in the U.S. Information on political activism; Discussion of the conflicting views of the youngsters; View that the generation was outward-turning, sharing and politicized; Comparison of the developments taken during 1950s and 1960s; Focus on the American literature; Description of various achievements of the youth movement.

Focuses on the political activities of the New Left in the U.S. Admiration for the energy of the young radicals; Response of socialists to the demonstrations against the war in Vietnam; Disappointment on the difficulties and opportunism of the political system; Fundamental pattern of American radicalism; Socialism of Norman Thomas; Destruction of freedom in the name of total transformation of man; Complications of democratic radicalism.

Focuses on the contribution of the Watergate Trial on the wave of radical protest in the U.S. Effects of the exposure of the crime and scandal in highest office on radicalism and militant activism; Vindication for the radicals of the 1960s; Sudden emergence of the youth revolt; Radicalization and politicization of universities; Reassessment of the American youth rebellion in the 1960s; Scenario of retributive justice.

The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of April 29, 1972. A number of items are covered including the conduct of the war in Vietnam by the administration of U.S. president Richard Nixon, the possibility of appointing an African American ambassador to South Africa and the impact of activists promoting social change on corporate stockholder meetings.

Comments on the feelings of distrust among masses of Afro-Americans during the term of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Problems encountered by the movements of social change; Promises addressed by Nixon to the white Southeners but never the blacks; Efforts of liberals to appease the black revolutionaries; Economic problems contributing to the social problems.

Comments on economic and political power of African American people in the U.S. Role of ethnic political machines and other ethnic institutions in the rise of the minorities; Opinion that the African American revolutions such as the civil rights protests, the spreading violence in the cities, and the controversy over black power are reflections of economic changes; Impact of technological developments on the occupations of African Americans; Information on the launch of civil rights movement by African Americans; Differences in the government plans for organized and unorganized labor.

Describes the situation of the Communist Party of the United States. Massive loss of membership during the McCarthyist period and subsequent recruitment of a younger generation; Sources of tension between communists and the New Left, including the latter's anti-communism; View of the communists that socialism is inevitable in the U.S.; Relations with the Black Left; Relative sanguinity about radical developments in the U.S.; Existence of at least 15 Marxist factions on the Left.

Focuses on the politics and government in Vietnam. Comments on the U.S. military relations with Vietnam; Cooperation of Communist guerrillas with non-Communists; Rise of the government's youth movement; Loss of Vietnamese in the war; Dismissal of the criticism of the Saigon regime; Discussion of the American official reporting on Vietnam.

Profiles Bill Belanger, secretary of the Massachusetts Congress of Industrial Organizations. Family; Career history; Circumstances that led Belanger to question the hardships he saw around him; Discovery of the gap between socialist theories and workers' practices; Development of the industrial-union movement; Lessons learned about unionism; Highlights of Belanger's years in the labor movement; Belanger's role in the victory of U.S. President Harry S. Truman in the elections.

Presents an insight into the political situation in the United States. Overview of the political activities taken by the Independent Voters of Illinois; View that the outcome of 1946 congressional elections will be determined by the extent to which the Democratic Party leadership, the labor movement and independent progressive groups can agree on a program of positive action; Suggestion to encourage new leadership in Missouri; Acknowledgement that Utah has become a really progressive state through political action; Comment that organized labor is the most important political force in California; Description of the situation of the Negroes in Oregon; Deterioration of the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota.

Focuses on the present condition of American literature. Disinterest in literature among young authors; Reasons for disinterest among middle aged American authors; Involvement of American authors in the war; Discussion on the reaction against social literature after the First World War; Opinion that the social movement among writers reached it highest point in 1937; Information on the pamphlet called "Writer Take Sides," published by the League of American Writers, which was campaigning for the Loyalists; Information on the novels published during the social realism of 1930's; Suggestion of an experiment for training writers; Domination of the American literature by the writers who came of age during or shortly after the First World War; Information on such writers.

Presents information on the public hearings of the La Follette Committee that was concluded in California on January 29. Report on the traditional open-shop policy of the community; Recognition of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association (M and M) as one of the most powerful anti-union employer organizations in the U.S.; Information on the members of the special committee which fostered the idea of founding Southern Californians Inc.; Information on the testimony concerning the Neutral Thousands, more popularly known as TNT; Information on the activities performed by TNT; Tactics of the M and M to induce various employers in a particular industry to create open-shop units; Realization of all employer groups, confronted with a rapidly growing, militant trade-union movement in California, that they must control the apparatus of state and count government.

Discusses the complexity, motives, interests and ideals of the labor movement in the U.S. Physical factors characteristic of all group behavior such as imitation, leadership and personal expression; View that the modern worker is without property; Shift of the worker to better things, after the security of the home and after more congenial surroundings; Basic differences between the present day worker and the peasant and the serf; Impact of competitiveness and the shifting market on the security of the worker.

Focuses on the charges of disloyalty made against the Nonpartisan League, the farmer's movement which started in North Dakota. League's admission that the opposition has been able to cause them trouble on the disloyalty issue; Incorporation of practically all the program of war economics advocated by the League into the nation's war policies; Impact on the organization of the attitude of some of its members immediately prior to and following the entrance of the United States into the war.

Reports on political developments in the U.S. Proposed plan for reducing British war-debt that would be raised by floating a twenty or thirty-year bond issue in the U.S.; Obscurity related to the proper implementation of the plan; Ratification of the "lame duck" Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; Felicitation of George W. Norris, veteran Senator from Nebraska, for his proposal for government operation of Muscle Shoals; Proposal of the U.S. administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a reduction in interest rates of farm mortgages; Protest raised by the Spanish government against the assassination of her citizens by agents of a bloody Cuban tyrant who retains his place only through the acquiescence of the United States; Strength of the Spanish regime amongst the Social Democratic governments which have emerged from the European revolutions; Sentence given to a Negro Communist Angelo Herndon for imprisonment of eighteen to twenty years in Georgia; Facilities available at two new theaters Radio City and Music Hall which has emerged successful in their performance; Statement of Morris L. Cooke of the New York Power Authority that distribution costs of electricity has become too high; Acknowledgement expressed for contribution of businessmen W.R. Hearst and Cyrus H.K. Curtis to the "Buy American" campaign; Insufficiency in the advancement of the progressive-education movement in the U.S. public schools; Broadcast of undesirable practices in connection with the flotation and subsequent manipulation of real-estate bonds in New York City.

The article provides updates on political and social issues in the U.S. in 1932. The speech of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Commonwealth Club in Francisco is considered the high point in his presidential campaign wherein he declared his views on electric power and utility control. On June 1932, three students at the University of Pittsburgh were arrested on suspicion of planning to exercise their constitutional right of free speech.

Presents fourth article in the series, "Fifty Years of American Labor," which focuses on labor movements. Definition of the term "wage consciousness"; Lack of standards to check that an American worker receives in comparable values more than his German or English confrere does for the same quantity and quality of labor; Failure of radicalism to influence the American labor movement; Ineffectiveness of attempts to overthrow the stalwarts; Efforts of Labor Party leader Daniel DeLeon to redirect the existing labor movement toward an activist and revolutionary orientation; Leadership of labor leader William D. Bill Haywood in combining the method of the Western frontiersman and the theory of Marxian Socialism; Formulation of the concept of industrial unionism by Haywood.

Focuses on an announcement made by communists in the U.S. on their intention of leading a hunger march. Agreement of the city administration to receive a delegation at City Hall; Acceptance of the request to allow Communists to make speeches from City Hall's steps; Environment created in Town Hall for the demonstration; Details of participation of Negroes in the march for the support of unemployment insurance; Speech given by a Negro editor, who was arrested for circulating radical leaflets; Demand of F.G. Biedenkapp, principal spokesperson, for unemployment insurance, free gas, free clothing and the use of public hall for meeting.

Presents views of social philosopher and thinker Herbert Croly on liberalism. Impact of liberal movement of 1920 on American voters, explained by Croly; Factors on which Croly's expression of the liberal aspiration rests; Need for political reforms through liberalism; Significance of the process of liberation, as told by Croly; Views of Croly on American progressives; Statement of Croly that political democracy cannot overcome class government without calling to its assistance industrial and social democracy; Differences in the political thinking of progressives and conservatives; Conclusion of Croly that liberalism must be distinguished from political progressivism; Social status of several liberally-inclined persons.

Presents musings of the author regarding replies received on the questionnaire issued by him on the social change. Assertion that scientist does not act, or even counsel action on the part of others, until the evidence is clear; Suggestion that to be effective, guidance must be based upon a definite plan or on a set of concrete objectives; Assertion that any possibility of purposeful social change depends upon whether or not a fair proportion of the leaders of the country's thought can bring themselves to agree on a limited list of crucial objectives.

The article discusses the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S. and the efforts by Republican politicians like President Donald Trump, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to campaign against the group. Also cited are BLM's campaign against racism and police brutality, and Trump's claim that his rival Joe Biden also wants to abolish and defund the police.

The author argues that independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has always been an extremist whose paranoia and unwillingness to compromise frequently sabotaged the causes he promoted. As Ralph Nader prepares for another spoiler run at the presidency, liberals are again wringing their hands at the damage he may do not only to Democrats' chances of retaking the White House but to his own reputation as well. The good-man-who-went-wrong assessment of Nader is virtually unchallenged among liberals. But, if you think about it for a moment, it's awfully strange. The qualities that liberals have observed in him of late--the monomania, the vindictiveness, the rage against pragmatic liberalism--have been present all along. Indeed, an un-blinkered look at Nader's public life shows that his presidential campaigns represent not a betrayal of his earlier career but its apotheosis. Nader made his name with the 1965 publication of "Unsafe at Any Speed," an expose of the Chevy Corvair. Few realize that Nader's campaign against the Corvair was only the most visible edge of an uncompromising, conspiratorial worldview. Nader believed not only that the Corvair was dangerous but that General Motors (GM) knew it was. Nader's friends recalled that often he would act furtively, speaking in code, always convinced he was being monitored or phone-tapped. Nader rightly wins credit for spurring progress during the era. And yet, even during his heyday, Nader habitually denounced liberals and their work, sabotaging the very causes he claimed to believe in. For Nader, it was almost axiomatic that anybody who disagreed with him was a corporate lackey.

Considers problems with using gender in the U.S. as a way to determine how public-health dollars are spent. Efforts by men's-health activists to gain parity with spending on women's health; Report that gender activism may cause more problems than it solves; Attitude of the women's movement toward the men's-health movement; Report that women's health gained political prominence in the early 1990s.

Characterizes the group of anarchists who protested the meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the U.S. Participation of students in the anarchists' movement; Speculation on how the anarchists formed as a result of vanished socialist causes and other declining social issues; Argument that anarchists are affluent college and graduate students who are in a position to tout materialism without risk; Differences between the labor and anarchists' movements.

Asserts that the impeachment trial of United States President Bill Clinton is another example of a morality play in the U.S. political culture. Accusations about morality and character prevalent in the U.S. politics recently; Examples of those accused; Morality plays in which the lead character has violated the norms of a powerful group and must pay a penalty; Battle over the definition of the good and what is worth sacrificing for it; Clash of cultural movements.

Provides some insights into the anti-pornography proposals by American lawyer, Charles H. Keating citing existing policies on pornography. Reputation and popularity of Keating in protecting the nation's moral standards citing his role as captain of Citizens for Decent Literature; Financial sources of Keating's anti-pornography initiatives; Pros and cons to Keating's efforts; Strategies of Keating in soliciting for political support for his anti-pornography programs.

Focuses on the struggle of Martin Luther King for racial equality in the U.S. Achievement of political consensus necessary to establish a national holiday; Commitment to the spirit of nonviolence; Contribution to the struggle for racial equality; Attention to the success of the civil rights movement; Information that the passage of civil rights legislation had shifted the focus from purely racial concerns to the broader and less tractable issues of political empowerment and economic justice.

Focuses on the cult movement led by South Korean businessman and religious leader Sun Myung Moon. Role of Reverend Sung Myung Moon in U.S. politics during the administration of President Richard Nixon; Information on the criminal charges filed against him and his cult movement; Impact of the movement on the youth; Creation of mass media enterprises aimed at advancing the ideals of the cult movement.

Focuses on the U.S. military aid to El Salvador. Details of the improvements in political conditions in El Salvador due to the U.S. aid; Conflict between President José Napóleon Duarte and the labor movement; Information on free trade unions, and Communist trade unions in the country; Comparison of the political conditions in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Describes an emerging form of social activism in the U.S. that focus on celebrities. Susceptibility of Americans to vague demonstrations of pride under corporate sponsorship; Information on events of celebrity fundraising; Comparison of the power of celebrities and politicians.

Focuses on the emergence of self-esteem movement in U.S. education as of August 1996. Concept of the self-esteem movement; Stand of liberals and conservatives on the movement; Findings of studies regarding the impact of the self-esteem movement in solving social problems; Question on the relevance of academic achievement to one's self-esteem; Problems with the concept of self-esteem.

Focuses on the revival of the civil rights movement in the United States. Degeneration of the civil rights movement into an endless power struggle among organized groups; Surrender of the Democratic Party monopoly on the minority vote; Comments on the failure of the Republican Party to regain the high ground on the civil rights debate; Role of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the revival of the civil rights movement; Proposals of President Bill Clinton on crime, welfare, education, health care, tax regulations, and housing.

Focuses on U.S. President George Bush's strategy of turning to the agenda of the Republican branch of the New Paradigm Movement which advocates reform. Bush's citation of five reforms in his address; New Paradigm's call to Bush to take two unilateral steps to boost the economy and reduce the tax on capital gains by exempting the amount of gain due to inflation and assert inherent presidential authority to employ a line-item veto; Bush's final statement on the issue.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comments on the article "The Peace Council and Peace," written by Ronald Radosh, published in the January 31 issue; Response to the involvement of the Soviet Union with the U.S. peace movement; Commitment of the freeze movement to bilateral nuclear disarmament; View that the most valuable assets of the freeze movement is its wide range of political support.

Analyses the strength of the labor movement in the U.S. in the light of coming out of Lane Kirkland as the accepted leader of American labor. Information that Solidarity Day, the huge demonstration in Washington, was a signal of the new direction in which Kirkland is taking the AFL-CIO; Information that Kirkland's first convention marked the return, after 13 years of separation from the AFL-CIO, of the United Auto Worker; Fact that more than 43 percent of the civilian labor force is now made up of women, but only 16 percent of them are unionized.

Presents information on reactions to the announcement by John Anderson regarding his candidacy for Republican nomination for president. View that Anderson, a Republican congressman from Rockford, Illinois, is a fairly powerful man on Capitol Hill; Comments on the popularity of Anderson; Opinion that Anderson is a bright, articulate man with a clear sense of self and purpose; Support of Anderson to the Equal Rights Amendment; Objection of Anderson on the development of the B-1 bomber.