Happy April from Global Comment! We're reading all sorts of things this week as we delve into politics and culture around the globe. Here's a taste of what we've been up to...add your own...
Election season in the United States has been almost unprecedented in its viciousness. While the greatest level of vitriol has almost certainly been on the Republican side, where frontrunners Ted...
The United States is sifting through the fallout of last night's Super Tuesday primary — one of the biggest events in the 2016 election cycle, with a huge number of primaries that have the...
Hillary Clinton, who came in to the 2016 presidential race so strong, is now fledging - dangerously close to being usurped by a resurgent Bernie Sanders. Clinton went through this before in 2008 and...
Hillary Clinton announced her Presidential candidacy on April 12, 2015. In the moment, it was great news. I like the woman; I believe her to be the single strongest and most qualified candidate in...
Economist Richard Wolff made an excellent animation of a lecture on the origins of “class” as a concept. He explains that, as an economic precept, capitalism lasted a whole lot longer in America...
Running openly as a socialist member of the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders, who has been an independent socialist for some time, has found that the term may not be as toxic as he'd been led to...