“Friends, Romans, Republicans, Lend Me Your Ears;

By [email protected] | April 29, 2026
By David Glenn Cox I’m not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel. I don’t watch his program. I don’t dislike him; he could drink at the bar with us. I didn’t really think his joke about Malaria Trump was particularly funny. Death is rarely ever funny, but I don’t blame Kimmel. I’m not incensed or outraged; we live in extreme…Read More

Emergency Planning: The President Is Preparing to Challenge 2026 Midterms. The Country Can Still Act to Protect Them.

By Jonathan Winer | April 29, 2026
National polling currently places President Trump’s approval rating at 40 percent or lower. Most models and prediction markets expect the 2026 congressional elections to shift control of the House, and more narrowly, the Senate, to the Democrats. That outcome would trigger investigations, subpoenas, and likely impeachment proceedings directed at members of the administration. This would not be a happy outcome…Read More

Sheri Berman Says the Democratic Recession Was Not a Surprise

By democracyparadoxblog | April 29, 2026
Sheri Berman is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, the author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe, and “Democracy’s Troubles Should Be No Surprise” in the most recent issue of the Journal of Democracy. The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. If democracy…Read More

It’s Gettin’ Late Early Out There

By John S. Walters | April 29, 2026
While I was preparing (an overly grandiose term for my process, TBH) for the latest edition of the “Montpelier Happy Hour” podcast with Your Host Olga Peters*, something struck me that shouldn’t have been a surprise at all. Well, two things: *Audio version available here. In a normal year, the Legislature would be steaming full-speed toward adjournment or would have…Read More

‘ICE Fishing’ in Minneapolis

By Wali Khan | April 28, 2026
In January, photojournalist Wali Khan documented ICE’s assault on the Twin Cities. Magazine,April/May 2026,On the Line,Immigration,Activism & Dissent,ICE,Minneapolis,Wali Khan Source link progressive.orgRead More

Reviving Civilization

By Brian Pawlowski | April 28, 2026
Niall Ferguson received Liberty Fund’s George F. Will Award for advancing our understanding of the wellsprings of Western prosperity on April 13, 2026, in Washington, DC. The award recognizes individuals who, like George F. Will, have made significant contributions to our understanding of the free society, individual liberty, and the human condition. Niall Ferguson’s work takes liberty seriously—not as an inevitability,…Read More

Political Strategy Notes

By J.P. Green | April 28, 2026
Jared Abbott, a researcher at the Center for Working-Class Politics and a contributor to Jacobin and Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, argues, “Class Dealignment Hasn’t Gone Away”  at Jacobin: “Working-class voters may be having second thoughts about MAGA, but they’re still abandoning the Democratic Party. Democrats’ reliance on college-educated suburbanites is arithmetically insufficient and politically unsustainable…Whatever short-term movement…Read More

Red Hunter: inspiration from history for an eco-socialist movement 

By Tim Briedis | April 28, 2026
There is an incredible history of worker radicalism in the Hunter Valley region. Workers and communists took on governments, police, banks and bosses, unionised whole industries from scratch, and formed militant Labour Defence Armies of hundreds. While these are not specifically environmentalist actions, there is much to take inspiration from in this history of defiance and rebellion. It is a…Read More