What to Make of Teamster Neutrality?
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced it would make no endorsement in the presidential race for the first time since 1996. Has the previously busted myth of the nonpolitical labor…
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SPLC and Its Union Get Ready to Rumble
Nonprofit organizations are generally not parliamentary democracies governed by their staffs. That did not stop the Southern Poverty Law Center’s unionized workers from holding a “no-confidence vote” in SPLC president…
Back to School: A Guide for Parents in Today’s Public Schools
Concerned parents have no choice but to be involved in their children's education. Gone are the days of dropping kids off on the first day of school and trusting that…
Beware Extremists in Green Hats at the Democratic National Convention
Scores of radical groups are promising to “March on the DNC.” While the protesters’ ancillary demands span the full “Everything Leftism” spectrum, the overriding motivation is animosity toward “apartheid Israel”…
The Other Political Convention in Chicago
Socialism 2024 is this year’s iteration of an annual left-wing gathering held in Chicago. Its purpose is to convene “thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country to…
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Three Axes, Two Buckets, and One Approach
There is a bizarre tendency of left-of-center causes to be promoted as a block even when they directly contradict each other. Some critics of institutional progressivism call this tendency “The…
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Everything Leftism’s Rise
Everything Leftism is less a policy manifesto than a radical approach to issue analysis. It surged during the “Great Awokening” after the 2016 election and was given a nitrous-oxide boost…
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Revealed by Hamas
Everything Leftism as an ideology jumped out of the political background and into the forefront after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. Almost immediately after the attacks, radical-left…
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: The People of Everything Leftism
The average liberal voter is not necessarily an Everything Leftist. Due to social pressure among liberals to profess Everything Leftism, it is impossible to know what proportion of the Democratic…
The Ideological Fuel of a New Left: Cross-Pressures
Everything Leftism is a powerful force. It defines the praxis of one of the two great ideological coalitions that define 21st-century American politics and policy. But it is not all-powerful,…