With a week until election day, the polls show the closest race in a long time. To understand how we find ourselves here, we need to take a step back and look at the national, international and historical backdrop to the 2024 election.
Trump may have cornered the market on middle-class and working-class racists. But Harris has proposed only the weakest tea for the millions who are not ideologically committed and looking for economic relief.
Joel Geier recounts the history of socialist organisations relating to the Black liberation movement in the United States, which began with the civil rights struggle in 1956 and ended with the Black Power movement in the early 1970s.
Judged from the vantage of macroeconomic indicators, the US economy is, as an economist quoted in the Wall Street Journal put it, “the envy of the world”. But when looking hard at the reality of life and work in the US, all of the economic glitter isn’t gold.
At this week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, US Vice President Kamala could have poured kerosene on a puppy and still come out as the liberals’ darling.
The cult of military service sprouted in the era of the volunteer army. While it means that professional politicians like Tim Walz may ride this into the White House with Kamala Harris, for others, it is a road to the graveyard.
