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Former US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, May 31, 2024, in New York
ALTHOUGH budding young journalists are advised to “avoid cliches like the plague,” sometimes they are just too apposite to resist.
The biggest take-away from the Donald Trump saga so far is that US democracy is “the best that money can buy.”
That can only be the main explanation for how a brash, trashy, arrogant, nonsensical spiv like Trump could become president of the United States of America — and not once, but quite possibly twice.
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
The prospect of the Democratic Socialists of America member’s victory in the mayoral race has terrified billionaires and outraged the centrist liberal Establishment by showing that listening to voters about class issues works, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
RON JACOBS welcomes a survey of US punk in the era of Reagan, and sees the necessity for some of the same today
