The trail of tears represents not only among the worst human rights abuses in our nation’a ugly history, but also an example of what happens when the executive branch ignores the courts—as it is again today. shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/a-constitu...

It’s nice to see the Guardian finally cover Nancy Pelosi’s legendary corruption & conservatism, but writer Arwa Mahdawi is 20 years late to the party.

Anyone who considers Pelosi a feminist icon has no idea what feminism means. shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/democratic...

Feedback like this helps me keep writing even when frustration and disillusion slow me down.

No one in Washington has clean hands, but this proposal is so overdue that it should shame the entire political and press establishment

Feinstein, like Pelosi, was an oligarch born into wealth and privilege whose “public service” filled their pockets, punched down and left at working Americans, engineered a global climate crisis, and built an unconstitutional surveillance state. shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/losing-a-s...

Democrats have flipped to become the primary supporters of the Pentagon and its continuing lies to support corporate weapons sales.

MLK rolls in his grave.

Militarism, capitalism, and racism, oh my!

Labor leaders betray their rank and file by supporting an insider trading oligarch who has ducked debates for 35 years and engineered a continuing upward redistribution of wealth

Many observers delude themselves into thinking that oligarchs will give up their seats willingly.

The only way to recover democracy in America is to recognize how we lost it. shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/neither-mc...