Most intolerable is the steady drip-drip-drip of power it drains from America's democratic ideals and commitment to the Common Good. I can't say that Abbott and DeSantis are the worst that the GOP will try to put in the White House in 2024, but either one is a signpost of an increasingly assertive American fascism. Read more...
Here they come again – That gaggle of Washington politicos and pundits who keep assailing Joe Biden’s package of FDRish... Read more...
In these sultry, dog days of August, the Lowdown presents a summer picnic of political snacks, meaty developments, both sweet and sour sides, and--of course--some mixed nuts. Read more...
In 2018 progressive forces prioritized a very different kind of political beauty: genuine democratic populism. Read more...
Outright voter suppression has quickly become the core component of the GOP's electoral strategy. Republican leaders became wholly committed to this approach after Barack Obama won the national election in 2008 with a heavy outpouring of support from young people, African-Americans, women, Latinos, union members, and other components of America's progressive majority. Read more...
The professional political observers are so fixated on the minutia of Washington-centric politics that they're missing the much bigger story of transformative political changes that have erupted in every region of the country. Read more...
You might expect such liberal bastions as Boston, Madison, Boulder, and San Francisco to call for an end to corporate... Read more...
In order of the date of passage, here are the 16 states that have already petitioned Congress to let their... Read more...
So many absurdities abound in our lives that there’s a whole body of philosophical thought called “absurdism,” as well as... Read more...
Some of you might remember “CREEP” from 1972’s Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could’ve been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself,... Read more...
The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’... Read more...
FOX TV YAKKER Bill O’Reilly was a sad old man on election night. “The white establishment is now the minority,” he... Read more...
CITIZENS UNITED not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses... Read more...
As I learned from experience in my “vote-for-me” period, the nature of the political scramble is this: You win some,... Read more...
The day before the election, I sensed a strange karma, as though some diabolical political force was settling across the... Read more...
Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock form the Flatlanders, a powerhouse trio of Texas singer/ songwriters now based in... Read more...
“For too long,” wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, “some in this country have been deprived of full... Read more...
Having just graduated from the University of North Texas in June 1965, I headed east to Washington, D.C., for a few... Read more...
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, “I feel good about voting for him.” Ms. Jones,... Read more...
At a time when We The People have been vociferously and unequivocally demanding that our political aspirants offer Big Ideas... Read more...
In our July issue we asked Lowdowners to come up with names for an Obama administration. Here’s what you told us:... Read more...
Join us in taking the second part of our Lowdown Presidential Survey–a free-wheeling, thoroughly unscientific poll, asking you Lowdowners to... Read more...
The nasty fellow whose attack-dog, smear-tactic, lie-and-distort brand of politics lifted George W into the White House twice has quietly slipped back... Read more...
The political media establishment is enrapturedby John McCain. Mainline media sparklies, as well as the blatherers on the Fox channel, routinely buff... Read more...