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How to weather the next few years of climate change
May 3, 2016Our world is changing as we fiddle with climate change denier nonsense while watching the oceans rise, acidify and lose oxygen, and extreme drought and weather slap us.
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American-Russian analyst laments the new Cold War
April 29, 2016American-born Justin Lifflander, graduate of Cornell University, arrived in Russia (then the USSR) in 1987 as a driver-mechanic for the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
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Left strategy in 2016 (Part 2): Building real political independence
April 27, 2016American politics is conducted in a two-party, winner-take-all system. We have to play the cards dealt as we fight to change the rules of the game.
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Socialism: Fight for something or you’ll lose everything
April 27, 2016I'll start by saying I don't believe in utopia, and I don't trust utopians.
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Left strategy in 2016 (Part 1): Grasping the key link of struggle
April 26, 2016Win or lose, American politics will never be the same again because radical new ideas have been discussed widely and new forces have energized the electoral arena.
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