John Wojcik

WASHINGTON—In a defeat for Trump who had hoped he could get Teamster President Sean O’Brien to wrangle an endorsement of him out of his union, the best O’Brien could do, after kowtowing to Republicans by attending their convention, was a “non-endorsement” of either Trump or Harris.

The headline in today’s print issue of the New York Times says “rivals,” as if this were a horserace rather than a crucial election, face “different tests in crucible of TV debates.” Nowhere does the “paper of record” mention any of the tests that count.

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden quit the 2024 presidential race Sunday, ending his drive for re-election after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump raised doubts about his fitness for office and sparked a relentless campaign by the media and several Democratic Party officials to push him out.

The first night of the RNC was supposed to be about unity but instead showcased once again the determination of the Republicans to stir hatred, fear, and discord to improve their chances of coming out ahead in 2024.

As the Republican National Convention got underway Monday with talk of “unity” against the political violence for which it is actually responsible, the party is already well on its way to running a massive voter suppression campaign that dwarfs what it did four years ago.

Flying under the news radar this week is the fact that President Biden is leading, starting Wednesday, a meeting of NATO chieftains in Washington DC this week who are planning to ramp up by many tens of billions of dollars how much they will spend annually on more and more war and destruction around...

WASHINGTON—The Republican-named Supreme Court majority’s grant of absolute and perpetual immunity from federal crimes to Donald Trump, strictly because he had been president, sparked fast and furious outrage and waves of condemnation that are sweeping across the nation.

Back in the 1930s and ’40s, and even before that, there were fascist operatives in the U.S. with significant followings. Their aim was to destroy the U.S. government and remake America in their own image.

This article is part of the People’s World 100th Anniversary Series. In 2011, Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin led the effort to pass a law known as Act 10, a massive attack on working people and union rights in the state.

Despite the “overwhelming victories” the media falsely ascribes to Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire, the real raw data tells an entirely different story.