Financial Times, “Why street protests are good for you”

And we moved on. Threadneedle Street was packed and full of rage. Anarchists at one end, police at the other, flying bottles in between. First the anarchists all sat down. Then they broke the windows of RBS. And everyone was filming — protesters filming police, who were filming protesters filming them. It was like being […]

Salon, “Stop calling the party of Donald Trump “conservative”: It’s a party of dangerous, destructive reactionaries”

In the United States, it has long been common for political terms to deviate considerably from their original European meaning, or even to acquire entirely new meanings. After the New Deal, for example, liberal came to represent those who advocated social democratic policies (e.g., universal health care, income and wealth redistribution, social security, strong labor unions) in America, […]