Daniel Lazare
Latest articles by Daniel Lazare
American crisis mounts
The current fraught situation highlights the huge breakdown that is in the offing, argues Daniel Lazare
Washington wars intensify
Will Trump be able to overrule ‘democracy’? It is far from impossible, writes Daniel Lazare
At breaking point
With Republicans and Democrats fighting over the few remaining state delegates and threats of appeals to the Supreme Court, Daniel Lazare predicts that the constitutional crisis can only get worse
Mutual collapse
Whoever wins on November 3, writes Daniel Lazare, the downhill slide looks set to continue
Covid-19 set to destroy Trump?
Daniel Lazare says the excess deaths are not only down to the president’s incompetence
More Russia wars
The US political crisis cannot be reduced to a single party or individual, writes Daniel Lazare
Nineteenth nervous breakdown
Daniel Lazare denounces the checks and balances that make what passes for ‘democracy’ such a shambles
Royal high court
Why the commotion over the death of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Daniel Lazare gives his answers
Weimarisation of politics
Daniel Lazare sees striking parallels between pre-Hitler Germany and America today
Positive and negative
Daniel Lazare reviews Christian Parenti's "Radical Hamilton: economic lessons from a misunderstood founder"
Repackaging the ancien régime
Is the priority getting rid of Trump at all costs? Daniel Lazare takes a look at the reactionary nature of the Biden-Harris programme
Going straight downhill
Who’s trying to rig the US elections, asks Daniel Lazare - Republicans, Democrats or both?
Strategy of tension
Forces supposedly opposed to an authoritarian takeover are helping to pave the way for it, writes Daniel Lazare
What will remain of democracy?
With Trump now employing paramilitary forces, writes Daniel Lazare, the signs are not good
A plague on both houses
Trump has rewarded Roger Stone and the Democrats want Julian Assange cruelly punished, says Daniel Lazare
Power of child-like logic
Without a centralised leadership BLM risks playing into Trump’s hands, argues Daniel Lazare
Toppling over a cliff
It is not just Trump’s fault that cases of Covid-19 are soaring, writes Daniel Lazare
End of the Donald?
Suddenly everything seems to be going wrong for the president, says Daniel Lazare
Trump: three questions
Daniel Lazare looks at the possibilities in the presidential election
Race über alles?
Daniel Lazare looks beneath the skin of Black Lives Matter and reveals the links with big business
America explodes - again
As Trump exploits middle class fears we should expect more tyranny, not less, writes Daniel Lazare
The Biden disaster
Daniel Lazare recalls the consistently reactionary politics of the Democratic presidential candidate
Coronavirus and the political organism
There is now a hole where a superpower used to be, writes Daniel Lazare
Democracy is central
In the wake of Bernie Sanders’ withdrawal, Daniel Lazare responds to recent contributions
An empire unravelling
Daniel Lazare believes that Covid-19 could mean the end for the USA in its current form
The great Bernie bust
It is now all but certain that Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate, writes Daniel Lazare.
Subordinate to the bourgeoisie
It is true that Sanders is mobilising the working class, writes Daniel Lazare. But for what?
Explosive contradictions
Daniel Lazare looks at America’s primitive constitution, the Sanders surge and asks ... ‘what if’.
Stronger than ever
While it is good that Trump was acquitted, writes Daniel Lazare, the slide into authoritarianism is now set to continue.
America, the robotic
Daniel Lazare examines the role of a reactionary constitution in the battle over Trump’s impeachment.
Fury, frustration and volatility
Daniel Lazare examines the dilemmas, contradictions and warmongering of US imperialism.
Russia, Russia, Russia …
The Democrats’ campaign for Trump’s impeachment is a symptom of a sea change, writes Daniel Lazare.
Most dangerous woman in America?
Daniel Lazare considers the role of Fiona Hill in the anti-Trump impeachment campaign.
Abolish the filibuster
The constitution of the United States is designed to thwart democracy, observes Dan Lazare.
Russiagate and what it says about America
The US is in decline, writes Daniel Lazare, and making matters worse it is saddled with an antiquated constitution.