There's a lot of confusion around concerning the interpretation of this week's Senate results in the United States. Here's an attempt to straighten some of it out.
Category: United States
Election preview: United States midterms
American voters get the chance tonight to put some legislative restraints on their rogue president. Here are a few things to watch for.
Election preview: Brazil runoff
Brazil chooses its new president tomorrow, with a right-wing authoritarian the unbackable favorite.
Worrying about the far left, part III
Now if ever seems to be the time for a new popular front. Can liberals, social democrats and Marxists manage to work together?
The woes of a Trumpist justice
Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has bogged down, for both personal and political reasons. The two are not unrelated.
Trump voters and economic distress
A study with some interesting things to say about measuring economic distress and its political impact.
Perpetual war for perpetual peace
America marks another anniversary, and a libertarian think-tank does good work in arguing against a state of permanent warfare.
Socialism with a human face?
It's fifty years since Soviet tanks crushed the Czechoslovak experiment in humane socialism. But the issues involved have not disappeared.
A quick post about racism
Can white people be victims of racism? And if so, is it a serious problem?
Truth and the Republicans
Barack Obama defends democracy and liberalism in South Africa. Some conservatives now admit that's a good thing.
The World is Not Enough 