Lenny Bruce: "All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover."
Yvette Carnell explores the failure of identity politics;
Mike Whitney dissects Trump's economic policy, which looks like the same old trickledown with a few troubling wrinkles;
Chris Floyd charts the rise of Trump on the continuum of American politics;
Jeffrey St. Clair dissects the Democrats' abandonment of the working class;
Anthony DiMaggio reports on the street protests against Trump and
Alena Wolflink examines how Trump's campaign hit all the right nerves. Plus:
Jason Hirthler on whitewashing the crimes of empire;
Joshua Frank on climate change and the future of the grizzly;
Seth Sandronsky and
Dan Berman on the struggle for workplace safety;
Ruth Fowler on police violence and gentrification;
Daniel Raventos and
Julie Wark on the refugee crisis;
Robert Hunziker on spiking radiation levels in the Pacific Ocean and much more.
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