Author: TarheelDem

Rev. William Barber’s Moral Monday movement is one of the factors attributed to removing Pat McCrory from the governorship of North Carolina.  He tells how resistance works. Rev. William Barber, The Nation: North...

Mick Konczal,Medium: Learning from Trump in Retrospect As Joan C. Williams noted in an important essay, “the white working class (WWC) resents professionals but admires the rich.” The WWC doesn’t encounter rich...

Laurie Penny, The New Statesman: No, identity politics is not to blame for the failures of the left All politics are identity politics, but some identities are more politicised than others. The notion that the politics of...

WRAL-TV: Court order, challenges to vote totals complicate finalizing election results This is how the Koch brothers do GOTV, it seems.  Create chaos.

Katie Grimes, Assiastant Professor of Theological Ethics, Vanderbilt University (Nashville TN): There is no such thing as the “White Working Class” Here we encounter something quite strange: figures such as Sanders,...