The Sanders campaign showed that a candidate with mildly progressive programs could win the nomination, maybe the election, even without the backing of the major funders or any media support. There's good reason to suppose that Sanders would have won the nomination had it not been for shenanigans of the Obama-Clinton party managers. He is now the most popular political figure in the country by a large margin.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...