Anthony Dimaggio

  • Post-Trump era

    Trump may be out of office, but American politics seem more crisis laden than ever between the caretaker neoliberalism of the Democrats and the...

  • An open debate?

    The 'cancel culture' has been all the rage in US media over the last week. Depicting colleges as hotbeds of intolerance, Donald Trump threatened to...

  • The have-nots

    Americans have historically struggled to see inequality as a major societal problem. Inequality in the US was at record levels, even before the...

  • The ‘electable’ myth

    As the Democratic primaries near, the usual chorus of Democratic-establishment pundits have emerged to remind Americans that their party needs to...

  • Politics of de-escalation

    As “the loudest voice” in the room, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo successfully lobbied for President Trump to authorize the illegal...

  • Opposing conflict

    The US stands at the precipice of war. President Trump’s rhetorical efforts to sell himself as the “anti-war” president have been exposed as a...

  • Fake news

    ‘Fake news’ has become a household term in contemporary discourse. A review of the Nexis Uni database shows that, in any given week, it appears...

  • A plea for nonviolence

    The violence that accompanied recent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia is merely the opening salvo in a larger conflict between...

  • The climate coma

    The world is already looking at  the Trump administration with derision after its announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate...