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The author comments on the 2020 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Cory Booker. Topics discussed include his early life and education, his affiliation with the Democratic Party, and his chances of winning the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Also mentioned are Booker's relationship with actress Rosario Dawson, political positions, and electoral history.

The article discusses the challenges facing the Indivisible movement, a resistance group against U.S. President Donald Trump which was founded in 2016, relative to the upcoming 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Topics discussed include the issue of endorsement for the presidential election, outcome of the National Campaigns Network meeting held in Washington, D.C. in August 2019, and the movement's inception from the perspective of co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin.

The article discusses the U.S. 2018 midterm elections, contending that the Democratic Party has shifted to the political left and progressivism has become more popular. An overview of progressive Democratic candidates, including Beto O'Rourke and Gretchen Whitmer's winning the Michigan gubernatorial election, is provided.

The article discusses the billionaire Tom Steyer's Need to Impeach Campaign's goal of impeaching U.S. President Donald Trump, including Steyer's critique of the U.S. Democratic Party's policy towards Trump and the role that the U.S. congressional elections play in the potential impeachment of Trump. U.S. political attitudes towards the impeachment of Trump, including Democrats who support impeachment, are discussed.

The article discusses U.S. white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, members of the alt-right and far-right wing extremists that are competing in elections throughout the country as members of the Republican Party (GOP). An overview of the politician Corey Stewart's loss in the Republican primary in a Virginia gubernatorial election is provided.

The article offers information on the growth in the number of Democratic women who runs for government office in the U.S. following the victory of President Donald Trump who was considered as incompetent and embarrassing. It mentions several Democrats women who challenges Republicans for government seats including Jennifer Carroll Foy, Kelly Fowler, and Dawn Adams.

The article discusses the political behavior, social interaction with her supporters and optimism of the former community organizer and Somali American U.S. Representative of Minnesota Ilhan Omar. An overview of Omar's relations with political supporters in Minneapolis, Minnesota is provided.

The article discusses a strategy for Democrats in U.S. Congress to oppose the U.S. President Donald Trump, including in regard to Trump's alleged lies. Topics, including the influence of corporate lobbyists on Trump's policies, wage stagnation in the U.S., the putative corruption in Trump's administration, privatization under Trump and the increase of student loan debt in 2018, are discussed.

The article discusses Democrats' winning of U.S. state legislatures in the 2018 midterm election against Republican Party (GOP) candidates. An overview of the context of Donald Trump as U.S. president, including in comparison with state legislative elections under U.S. President Barack Obama, is provided.

The article discusses Democrats' winning several electoral races in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, including progressive African American Democrat Mandela Barnes' winning the election for lieutenant governor in Wisconsin. The impact that the U.S. President Donald Trump had on Democrats' electoral success is discussed.

The article questions the long-term impact of the administration of U.S. president Donald Trump on the U.S. national security apparatus with a focus on the potential reorganization of national security after the end of Trump's tenure. Alleged contradictions between Trump's isolationist rhetoric and his decision to intervene militarily in Syria and Ukraine are identified. The relationship between capitalism and inequality and its political impact are scrutinized.

The article profiles U.S. President Donald Trump's political aides who are considered the most dangerous people in the country. They include Scott Pruitt who organized opposition to environmental regulations as Oklahoma's attorney general, Stephen Miller who announced on television that the powers of the president to protect the nation are very substantial and will not be questioned, and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The author examines how much of a threat North Korea really poses to the U.S. after it has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test on July 4, 2017. He believes that the U.S. needs an experienced levelheaded leadership to manage the multiple crises arising abroad, starting with the North Korean nuclear threat. He further believes that the installation of U.S. President Donald Trump as commander in chief has made the situation more perilous.

The article discusses the victory of progressive politicians at local elections in the U.S. It states that the list of victories are striking and most of them are unprecedented and linked by growing recognition on part of national progressive groups and local activists. It mentions that the progressive politicians are inspired by their opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump and the experience of the Presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.

The article discusses political opposition and resistance to the U.S. Republican President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress. The role that political movements play in the resistance to Trump, including the grassroots movement 350.org's efforts to hold government accountable for reducing emissions, is discussed.

The author discusses the U.S. government's need to demand a rigorous Green New Deal in the event of a new financial crisis bailout request by Wall Street as of 2019. Topics covered include the government's missed opportunity during the 2008 financial crisis, and the need for future bailout recipients to be subjected to strict carbon audits on their projects. Also noted is its application if the transportation sector push for affordable public transit networks.

The article discusses the mainstream U.S. media's normalizing what the author considers the extraordinarily poor rhetoric and abnormal behavior of President Donald Trump. The newspaper "The New York Times" editor Dean Baquet's headline, including the author's belief that it did not sufficiently highlight Trump's putative racism, is discussed.

The article discusses the rhetoric and government policies of the U.S. President Donald Trump during the summer 2019, from May 30-September 1, 2019. Topics discussed include Trump's denouncing of women of color U.S. Congresswomen, deportation policy, Trump's anti-Semitic rhetoric on Jewish loyalty, tariffs on imported Mexican goods to the U.S. and the reduction of food stamps, are discussed.

The article discusses the television show "Game of Thrones" in relation to U.S. politics. Topics include the roles of realism and fantasy in the show, the possibility of metaphors for climate change on the show, and the similarities of characters to U.S. political personalities such as U.S. President Donald Trump and political operative Roger Stone.

The article discusses the power that the media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family have over the mass media and U.S. politics, including his ownership of the television station Fox News. Fox News and Murdoch's relationship with the U.S. President Donald Trump, including Murdoch's initial disdain for Trump, is discussed.

The author discusses wealth inequality in the U.S., noting that the country's wealthiest one percent holds more wealth than the bottom 90 percent totalled. It reports on a proposed wealth tax forwarded by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts which would impose a modest tax on the wealthiest 75,000 households in the country. This plan is compared to that proposed by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York who has suggested that the wealthiest be subject to taxes as high as seventy percent.

The article discusses the status of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump as of January 2019. Topics include the impacts of a government shutdown on federal workers, the nature of the U.S. Republican Party in relation to Trump, and the role of the U.S. presidency in relation to the Electoral College.

The article discusses the purported falsehoods of U.S. President Donald Trump in the mass media, including the newspaper "USA Today's" printing an article by Trump with several falsehoods. An overview of the television station Fox News' espousing the alleged lies of Trump, including in regard to the Democratic politician Hillary Clinton, is provided.

An editorial is provided which discusses several Democratic political candidates competing in U.S. November 2018 elections for U.S. Congress and in state governor elections, including David Zuckerman of Vermont, Ben Jealous of Maryland and Scott Wallace in Pennsylvania. An overview of the progressivism of certain Democratic candidates, including the support of marijuana legalization, net neutrality and a liberal refugee policy, is provided.

The article discusses the competing in primaries of young far-left politicians within the U.S. Democratic Party, including politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's defeat of establishment Democrat Joe Crowley in a New York state election. An overview of Democrat politicians in the political reform movement is provided.

The article discusses the U.S. President Donald Trump's allegedly hostile policy towards children, including the policy of separating immigrant children from parents at the U.S. border and the travel ban against people from several Muslim countries. Other topics, including work requirements for welfare recipients, the impact of Trump's policies on racial minority children and health care for children, are discussed.

The article discusses how U.S. President Donald Trump selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. It reports that Kavanaugh's nomination needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate before he can join the Court. It reports that when nominated, Kavanaugh was a sitting judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The author reflects on U.S. political attitudes, suggesting that the administration of President Donald Trump is the result of sociopolitical conditions and not the cause. He states that Trump engages in racial terrorism and supports white supremacy ideals, arguing that such ideologies existed in the U.S. but can be addressed by opposing Trump.

The article criticizes the militarization of U.S. foreign policy with a focus on the alleged discontinuity between the will of the electorate for diplomacy and the desire of policy makers to wage endless global war. The author questions the ideological basis and appeal of armed conflict using political support for U.S. president Donald Trump in communities most heavily committed to participation in the armed forces as a metric.

The article discusses the protests and teachers' strikes in U.S. states, or red states, in which the majority vote for Republican Party candidates, within the context of the U.S. Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan's retirement. An overview of Ryan's role in the budget cuts to U.S. education, including in regard to tax cut legislation, is provided.

The article reports on political engagement of white women in U.S., as of March 2018. Topics discussed include information on gender and race gap in electoral politics, prevalence of white supremacy and effects of factors on voting behavior such as heterosexual marriage , education, and religion ; and support of suffragist and feminist movements for political engagement of women.

The author criticizes the attitude and performance of Donald Trump as president of the U.S. He describes perceived indications of Trump's immaturity and incompetence, including his negative tweets against his enemies and his incitement of racial division. The author also discusses actions taken by the Republican Party that have negatively affected the country and the role of the Democratic Party in reviving democracy.

The author comments on issues facing U.S. President Donald Trump. He describes the factors contributing to the decline of Trump's approval rating following his victory in the 2016 election. He also examines the political style of Trump, the impact of his firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey and the importance of providing alternatives to the president's policies.

The article reflects on the decision of Steve Bannon to leave the White House on August 14, 2017 as chief strategist of U.S. President Donald Trump. Topics include Bannon's declaration that the Trump presidency is over, the role of Bannon in pushing Trump's political policies, and the implication of Bannon's departure which confirms Trump as an interventionist Wall Street Republican.

The author comments on the chaos created by U.S. President Donald Trump among the Jewish right. Topics include the anti-Trump positions of a few neoconservatives, "Weekly Standard" founder William Kristol's pursuit of a chemerical third-party conservative candidate, and the criticism against the Trump administration.

The article discusses three possible reasons for U.S. President Donald Trump's depraved response to the Nazi violence that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11-12, 2017. Topics include criticism against the leadership of Trump, how the president played off voters' fears about African-American and immigrant criminality, and his utilization of vulgar sexism against former U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton.

The article presents the author's insights on the culture war in the U.S., and mentions the need for Democrats not to compromise on fundamental principles. Topics discussed include the RAISE Act introduced by Republican senators that would affect legal immigration in the country, the culture war fought outside the Senate, and the potential implication of the possibility that Democrats might surrender on immigrant rights and women's reproductive rights.

The article presents the author's views on the leadership of U.S. President Donald Trump as of August 2017, highlighting the possibility that many systems that the American society is dependent on will be destroyed by his administration. Topics include Trump's decision to hire unqualified people in his cabinet, political agenda, and Obamacare. Also discussed are the debate to repeal or replace Obamacare and Trump's immigration policy.

The article presents the author's views on the leadership of U.S. President Donald Trump as of August 2017 which she deems ineffective and faulty. Topics include her experience of talking to a supporter of Trump who believes that the free market will address all problems, Trump's failures as a leader, and her efforts to help fight against Trump's administration. Also examined are Trump's misogyny and factors that contributed to his success in the elections.

The author suggests ways to revive U.S. democracy. He believes that American democracy is no longer working after having a president who lost the popular vote by almost 3 million ballots. He then notes that since the Republican Party has benefited from the dysfunction, it is not a rush to promote democratic renewal. The author also describes two ways Democrats will address the crisis.

The article discusses political scenario in the U.S. post 100-days into U.S. president Donald Trump's regime. Topics include politician Steve Bannon's plea for moral choices, Senator John Thune of South Dakota on Republican leadership strategy and Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan's failure to repeal Affordable Care Act.

The article discusses the reaction to first 100-days of presidency of U.S. president Donald Trump. It offers views on members of Trump administration including advisers Steve Bannon, Secretary Betsy DeVos, House Speaker Paul Ryan and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Topics include Women's March, People's Climate March and Muslim countries ban by Trump.

The article discusses what the author refers to as a political power struggle involving the billionaires who serve as advisors and consultants in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and the bombardiers who the author states are political ideologues who seek to bring down the existing world order as of 2017. Trump's personality is addressed, along with his decision to surround himself with super-rich leaders such as Bestsy DeVos, Wilbur Ross, and Steve Mnuchin.

The author reflects on former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's presidential primary run in November 2019. Topics discussed include his record of poor judgment on issues like the defense of former President Bill Clinton's welfare cuts, and support for the Iraq War, and his projection as a weak alternative to U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection bid. The author calls for Biden's withdrawal to boost worthier challengers like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and candidates of color.

An interview with Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, is presented. Topics discussed include his commitment to make Jackson the most radical city, the need to focus on the root cause of social and political problems, and the economic conditions in Mississippi under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The author comments on the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, and the allegations that Trump pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden. Topics discussed include the rising left in the Democratic Party, the centrist narrative of national security misconduct, and on how exemplifies decadence and corruption of the imperial presidency.