by Howie Hawkins | Feb 9, 2025 | 2024 Election Analysis, Featured, Green Strategy, Issues |
Originally posted in New Politics Winter 2025 (New Politics Vol. XX No. 2, Whole Number 78) and online at at https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-political-paradox/ 2Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and...
by Steve Welzer | Dec 30, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis |
Votes for alternative-party candidates get counted relatively slowly. Write-in votes get counted slowest of all (most likely a lot of them are either never counted or never reported). At the end of the process this year Jill Stein will wind up being credited with...
by Denise Brush | Dec 23, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Green Strategy |
The U.S. President taking office in January 2025 will undoubtedly cause significant damage to the United States and to the Green Party pillars of peace, ecology, social justice and democracy over the next four years. The following essay is intended to inspire Greens...
by Rick Greenblatt | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Green Strategy |
Introduction. Let’s be clear at the outset: 2024 was Kamala Harris’ and the Democratic Party’s election to lose, and they lost it decisively. Trump and the Republicans will shortly control the presidency, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and much of the...
by Howie Hawkins | Dec 4, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe, International Politics |
Dispatches After the Election of Trump My last dispatch was almost a month ago, on November 6, the day after Trump won the American presidential election. The main reason for the pause in dispatches is that my hosts in Ukraine, and then Poland, Germany, Czechia, and...
by Howie Hawkins | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis |
The first thing we should do is understand why a majority of the 65% of eligible voters who actually cast ballots elected a far-right authoritarian by a narrow 51% to 48% margin. The American working and middle classes are angry at the economic precarity that the...
