20 ideas that were considered radical when proposed and are now completely mainstream

What's Truly Radical About America's Revolution

What's Truly Radical About America's Revolution

Rules for Radicals: The Way Ahead w/John Weeks

John and I finish reading Rules for Radicals.

Fund defense now or watch Democrats gut it later

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Congressional Republicans are understandably leery of passing a third reconciliation []

The Radicals Inside the Tent

The Radicals Inside the Tent

What We’re Reading: Haters, Lovers, Communists … and More

Headlines that caught our eye.

AMERICAN PRIDE PARTISAN SPLIT

AMERICAN PRIDE PARTISAN SPLIT (Main headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:STATE OF 250!

Let Us Celebrate a 250-Year History of American Radicalism

The Left should make the most of this Semiquincentennial and start reminding Americans of the radicalism and revolution at the heart of the history of this country, writes historian Harvey Kaye.

Scrubbed: Talarico Boldly Memory-Holes Trans Advocacy, 'Progressive Ideas'

Scrubbed: Talarico Boldly Memory-Holes Trans Advocacy, 'Progressive Ideas'

How to Build a Real Strategy for Power

For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness by Yotam Marom, New Press, 2026. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Convergence’s Bookshop. 10 of purchases made through our bookshop support our movement media work. Featured image by Jared Rodriguez. Most of Us Don’t Have a Strategy for Power The truth is, most of the

The Left's Fascist Fallacy

The Left's Fascist Fallacy

Liberals eat their own, harass Scott Wiener over Gaza stance 

The revolution always eats its own. This is one of the most central and frequently recurring themes in far-left radical organizing. And make no mistake, the far-left is feeling ascendant, as victories for democratic socialists in New York City have empowered the activist wing of the Democratic Party. These activists now feel comfortable showing who they truly are. Their...

Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)

Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell. Political strategist []

Happy 4th of July! Let’s have the dumbest argument ever about “communism”…

ORDER THE BOOK: “Imperialism Anti-Imperialism: Key Writings and Lectures” https://amazon.com/dp/B0H2F6L19H JOIN THE CENTER FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION: https://www.cpiusa.org/join-cpi Communism is suddenly dominating the headlines again. After President Trump’s recent comments, the New York Democratic primary, the rise of Zohran Mamdani, and renewed attention on the Democratic Socialists of [] The post Happy 4th of July! Let’s have the dumbest argument ever about “communism” first appeared on Attack the System.

‘Wild-eyed radicals’: the Democrats veer left

‘Wild-eyed radicals’: the Democrats veer left

Chris Hedges: The Joke Is On Us

The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It isRead more

How Butler Assassination Attempt Conspiracy Theories Became the New Dallas 1963

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part...

The Democratic Socialists’ War on America

America’s most radical left-wing movement is no longer content to protest from outside; it is now working to dismantle the republic from within. It would be a grave error to dismiss the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as mere campus radicals or online agitators. In New York City and beyond, the group and its allies...

A Great Debate on the Great Books

Recently, a strange, mercurial community of self-described, sometimes externally attributed, “conservative” academics engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of the “Great Books.” Luke Burgis, author and founder of the Cluny Institute, set off the tweetstorm with what on the surface seemed like a simple question: “What is the strongest argument from the political Right AGAINST Great... The post A Great Debate on the Great Books first appeared on Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Woke Isn’t Dead

Note: This article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your inbox. This week, John Murawski’s “Alive and Kicking, News of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated” has been top of mind. Over the last few years, reformers have accumulated some [] The post Woke Isn’t Dead appeared first on Minding The Campus.

Divided America: Leftists Are Dumping MAGA Family Members — for Good

In another example of America’s intensifying bifurcation, there are yet more stories of leftists cutting ties with MAGA relatives. ... The post Divided America: Leftists Are Dumping MAGA Family Members — for Good appeared first on The New American.

What Truths Do We Hold? A Response to Questions and Critics

My June 9, 2026, essay, “Celebrating* 250 Years of American Mythology?,” has drawn over a hundred comments. As often happens in the comments section of any online forum, the majority of these are people arguing [...]

JD Vance Gives The Left A Lesson In Christian Tradition

Vice President J.D. Vance made that point in a recent interview with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, in a clip posted Tuesday on X. His argument was not simply that modern secular progressivism has its own beliefs. It was that many of its rituals and public declarations borrow heavily from Christianity while stripping out God, [] The post JD Vance Gives The Left A Lesson In Christian Tradition appeared first on Red Right Patriot.

POLL: Labour Gains Six Points as Burnham Returns to Westminster

The latest from Find Out Now: Reform 24 (-3) Labour 21 (+6) Conservatives 18 (-) Greens 15 (-2) Libdem 12 (-1) The Burnham bounce is real. Although political honeymoons don’t last the weekend nowadays

North Siders Get Mugged by Reality – Chicago Contrarian

These are not complaints coming from hard-core conservatives. This is Lakeview, precisely the kind of neighborhood that votes for progressive candidates by overwhelming margins. Yet even the most progressive citizen begins moving toward the law-and-order end of the political spectrum when they are repeatedly confronted by violent offenders who seem immune to consequences.

NY's Socialist Surge: A warning America cannot afford to ignore

One of America's most influential cities is becoming the principal laboratory for an ideological social experiment which has failed before. The lessons are neither abstract nor academic. They are written in cemeteries across continents. Opinion.