Anis Shivani
Anis Shivani's recent political books include Why Did Trump Win?, A Radical Human Rights Solution to the Immigration Problem, and Confronting American Fascism. His novel A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less was released in January 2020.
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Views Saturday, March 21, 2020 Bernie 2020: What Went Wrong? It was a curiously pacified campaign all along. The huge fervent rallies were deceptive for the depth of political compromise they concealed. The ever-burgeoning grandiose plans to remake the American economy showed less and less connection with reality as the basic presumptions of an actual... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 09, 2020 Time to Debate: How Bernie Could Destroy Biden in 120 Minutes Or Less Dear Bernie, Provided Michigan hasn’t been a blow-out against you, the debate next Sunday will be your last and best chance to regain the upper hand. You can do this if you disavow your natural tendency to be kind to Joe Biden and his ilk, and remember what brought you to the movement in the first... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 04, 2020 After Super Tuesday, Bernie Must Go All Out to Make the Case for Biden's Unelectability For the second time (after the heart attack last fall), the Bernie Sanders movement is on life support. Let us not sugarcoat this: last night was worse than the worst-case scenario any Bernie supporter had imagined. The drastic slippage in Texas, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, and even Vermont,... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 15, 2020 So Many More People Understand the Meaning of Neoliberalism Today, and That’s a Huge Thing One of the most frustrating things for me, as a political writer over the last twenty-five years , was the inability of most liberals to grasp what neoliberalism was. But compared to even five years ago, the situation has changed dramatically, as many more ordinary people—nurses, teachers,... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 04, 2019 Lessons from Hurricane Harvey, for a Still-Flooded Houston After Hurricane Harvey damaged or destroyed nearly 135,000 homes, killed eighty-eight people, and led to the deliberate flooding of west Houston as two main reservoirs threatened to fail, what did the city of Houston do? It did the least possible it could get away with, and then casually moved on... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 22, 2019 The Dream Is Dead Not Just for Dreamers, But for All Americans In her important op-ed for the New York Times on August 13, 2019 , a DACA recipient (Dreamer) named Tawheeda Wahabzada, whose Afghan parents had earlier sought refuge in Canada but then came over to the U.S., declares that she is no longer willing to wait for our country’s legislative bodies to do... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 05, 2019 What the El Paso Mass Shooting Tells Us About the Operationalization of Fascist Violence As repulsive as it might be to take the manifesto of the El Paso killer seriously, we must shed inhibition aside and take a close look at it. For a 21-year old, it’s quite well articulated, beyond the reach of most American college students in terms of linking cause and effect and describing... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 07, 2012 What Progressives Expect from Obama Dear President Obama, Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 07, 2012 Modern American Politics as Performance Art At an early Republican presidential debate the candidates all raised their hands like robots when asked if they would veto a ten to one ratio of spending cuts to tax increases to balance the budget. Ten to one! I suspect the answer would have been the same had the ratio been a hundred to one. Read more |