Michael Arria Mondoweiss "The issue is not me," Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters after the Democrats won back the Senate. "I'll be reelected as majority leader." Schumer's statement might turn out to be correct, but there's increasing reason to believe that outcome is not a foregone conclusion, as the momentum to push him from his ["]

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Or are political interests manipulating this scandal? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with businesswoman Alice Huang. US intelligence officials claim she is a spy, without evidence. But she was likely smuggling AI chips. China hawks are exploiting the scandal. US intelligence agencies claim CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia, one ["]

By Jesse Hagopian This article was originally published by Truthout The new documentary Reading the World reveals how teaching literacy in Brazil became a struggle for political power. In 1963, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire helped launch a revolutionary literacy campaign in the impoverished northeastern Brazilian town of Angicos, where hundreds of rural workers learned to ["]

Chris Hedges ScheerPost The belief that Democrats will dismantle a system designed to serve the rapacious greed of the war machine and the ruling billionaire class is a mirage. Power does not rest in the Congress. It does not rest in the courts. It does not even rest in the imperial presidency. It rests in ["]

Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost The blue wave was a desperate demand to overthrow the status quo Democrats should put away the champagne. Forget the victory laps, the self-congratulation, the triumphant television appearances and the inevitable declarations that the American people have finally come to their senses. Yes, the midterm elections delivered an extraordinary Democratic victory. The ["]

Kelly Hayes Truthout he midterms delivered a stunning rebuke of Trump and the MAGA movement, but what will it take to turn electoral victories into lasting change? In this episode of "Movement Memos," host Kelly Hayes talks with anti-authoritarian strategist Scot Nakagawa about the opportunities and dangers of this political moment, the enduring power of ["]

By Derek Seidman This article was originally published by Truthout Historian Tejasvi Nagaraja explains how wartime mobilization generated wider organizing around labor, race, and empire. World War II was a period of enormous mobilization in U.S. society that brought together tens of millions of "war workers" -- soldiers and laborers in war-essential industries, spanning the ["]

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis, The Real News NetworkNovember 11, 2026 In 2018, covering our first midterm election, we followed the ultimately unsuccessful campaign of an electoral upstart named Jess King. King was a progressive candidate touting ideas like Medicare for All and a higher minimum wage in Pennsylvania's deep-red 11th District. Her campaign ["]

Mark Engler Waging Nonviolence Beyond countering Trump, movements must pressure Democrats to enact structural reforms that rebuild and institutionalize bottom-up power. Too often, we have seen a fundamental asymmetry at work: When Democrats win power, they might pass a modest minimum wage increase. When Republicans are in power, they do things like decimate public sector unions. ["]

Charlotte White Left Voice Following an explosive political year, Minnesota Democrats dominated the midterm elections, but Minnesotans must remember that ICE was defeated by the people, not by the Democratic Party. We need a party that represents the working class and our struggles, not the capitalists. Almost one year after Operation Metro Surge shook the ["]

Melvin Goodman CounterPunch The Democrats have taken control of the House and the Senate with younger, more progressive candidates. While these young men and women have a deep understanding of the domestic challenges they face to reverse Trumpism, they have little experience with the national security challenges that Donald Trump has created. Trump has wasted blood ["]

Mo Viviane Prism As the Trump administration's SNAP cuts deepen food insecurity in Kentucky, mutual aid organizations step up to feed neighbors while warning that community support cannot replace federal funding In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Tiffany Bellfield El-Amin rekindles Kentuckians' agricultural roots. El-Amin is the founder and director of the Kentucky Black ["]

Austin Sarat The 2026 midterm elections did not produce victory for a political party. Despite all the crowing about a blue tsunami, voters were no more enamored of the Democratic Party than they were two years ago when they put Donald Trump back in the White House. A Gallup poll taken in October found that ["]

Juan Cole Informed Comment China Daily reports from Mobility Global that in the first half of 2026, gasoline-only automobiles accounted for less than half, 49%, of new car sales throughout the world. Zhou Shuchun points out that while the early Model T had competition from electric and steam-driven cars, since the internal combustion engine became ["]

Jonathan Cook Substack A tech dystopia of surveillance and control is unfolding before our eyes. We think we are powerless to stop it only because we've been groomed into acceptance, into passivity, into helplessness There is something going all too obviously unnoticed as the latest scandal breaks about a celebrity engaging in sexually abusive behaviour ["]

M. Reza Behnam CounterPunch As a citizen and scholar, whose research, advocacy and moral framework have been dedicated to seeking justice and peace for the people of Palestine, Iran, Yemen and across West Asia, I find little cause for celebration in the recent Democratic Party midterm victories. Political reveling makes sense if you trust the ["]