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The Unfinished Business of American Socialism
Can American Socialism Survive Its Success? The movement has often seen its ideas flourish as its organizations withered. Will today's resurgence follow the same course? In 1912, more than a thousand socialists held office in the United States. Their ambitions ranged from lowering trolley fares to abolishing the Senate. It was American socialism's best year ever. In 1912, the Socialist Party of America tallied a hundred and twenty thousand members, and newsstands groaned under the weight of some three hundred socialist papers and magazines, including the Kansas-based, which had three-quarters of a million subscribers and was committed to the belief that "socialism is not just a theory--it is a destiny."
Democrats' radical 'day one' agenda after midterms triumph sparks dire warning for Americans' 401(k)s as stock market tanks
You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK, AU or IE homepage at any time using this menu. Stock market meltdown as $2.5trillion is wiped out in Wall Street bloodbath after Democrats' midterms victory rally turns to financial carnage JonBenet Ramsey's brother breaks 10-year silence in sensational new interview to reveal overlooked clue that can finally solve his sister's murder: 'It's sitting right there' Everyone's blaming Trump's Iran war for the midterms bloodbath... but MAUREEN CALLAHAN confronts a far more sinister cause, and warns: He'll go down as the Mad King who squandered the greatest comeback in history Trump's'Doomsday Plane' built to survive nuclear war is spotted flying across US on undisclosed mission The depraved act by Brand's sex-obsessed father that sparked a lifelong obsession: ALISON BOSHOFF It's so inconvenient': Grey's Anatomy star ERIC DANE died, at 53, from the motor neurone disease ALS. She demanded'hard' sex, joked about being gang-raped... ...
Slop, Ass, Cringe: MAGA Flops Abroad and Flails at Home
On the latest "Stress Test": Is this really Trump's closing message? With the midterms less than a week away, the closing stretch of the campaign is full of bad omens for MAGA abroad and peak weirdness at home. In Serbia and Brazil, Trump allies suffered stinging and surprising defeats driven in part by energized voter turnout. An anti-corruption youth movement spearheaded the surge in Serbia, while Brazil saw a dramatic comeback for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who defeated staunch Trump ally Flávio Bolsonaro. "Both of the losing candidates, Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vučić in Serbia, wrapped themselves around Donald Trump," co-host David Corn says on this episode of . "So we see in Serbia and Hungary authoritarian figures who try to emulate and ride the Trump wave being tossed out of office. And in [South America], where we've seen a right-wing tide they beat it back" in Brazil. There's a growing sense that voters worldwide are fed up with government grift. As David puts it: "Corruption seems to be the point of the spear." Meanwhile, the Israeli election--where the final results are still uncertain--also was something of a referendum on Trump, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempting to retain power by promoting his close ties to Trump. Back home, former President Barack Obama and Trump were each on the campaign trail in closing sprints. Obama is getting spicy, hitting Trump on his tacky taste and alleged corruption. Trump, meanwhile, has been obsessively commenting on physical anatomy--specifically "asses"--in one of the stranger closing arguments in modern American political history. "This has to be, like, the definition of being off message," co-host Garrison Hayes observes. Trump's fixation on rear-ends extended to rapper Nicki Minaj, who appeared at a rally, where Trump asked her to stand and extolled her derriere, fueling the silly rumor she might be named press secretary after the brief tenure of Katie "Half a Scaramucci" Zacharia."It For Garrison, the gambit is all-too familiar: "Here we are in the closing moments of this midterm election, and the way that the Trump administration has decided to utilize a Black person in order to, I imagine, appeal to Black voters is offensive.