Sharon Smith

Trump Make America Wealthy Again

Trump wins United States presidential election: ‘It’s the economy, stupid.’

Lance Selfa & Sharon Smith — The story of the 2024 election turned out to be remarkably straightforward. In a political environment where the electorate thought the country was moving in the wrong direction, voters tosses out the incumbent party.
Kamala Harris

United States: The (undemocratic) Democratic Party machine lurches toward the election

Sharon Smith — Kamala Harris’ rhetoric has tended to be more progressive than Biden’s, but Biden’s policies are very likely to be Harris’ policies in a future presidency because Harris has never strayed far from them, whatever language she has used.
United States: Political repression backfires as pro-Palestinian campus protests grow

United States: Political repression backfires as pro-Palestinian campus protests grow (plus: Open letter from US Students for Justice in Palestine to universities)

Sharon Smith — There is nothing like a war to expose the brutality of imperialism, and a massive anti-imperialist movement has returned to U.S. campuses, after decades of absence.