The GOP Now Belongs to Trump. What Are Republicans Going to Do About It?

Eugene Robinson Washington Post
Republican elected officials and party leaders do not have time for retrospective contemplation. They have a decision to make. The party belongs to Trump now, just as Rome belonged to the barbarians, and GOP politicians have to decide whether to fall in line or take up arms against the new order.

John Oliver: Cicadas

Billions of cicadas will soon emerge after spending 17 years underground. John Oliver fills them in on what's happened since 1999.

Ravel's Bolero in Mexico

Flash Mob performs Bolero in the town square of Toluca, Mexico. Performed by the Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerardo Urbán y Fernandez.

Trump Becomes the Nominee

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at how Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Friday Nite Videos -- May 6, 2016

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Trump Becomes the Nominee. Ravel's Bolero in Mexico. John Oliver: Cicadas. Georgetown University's Legacy of Slavery. Donald Trump: Nomination of a Birther.

There's No Going Back

Sam Rosenfeld Democracy Journal, Spring 2016
The initiatives of the New Deal and FDR's Second Bill of Rights represented less a permanent triumph of the welfare state or a model for a progressive way forward than a unique combination of non replicable circumstances, including a temporary cessation of enduring tensions involving race, immigration, culture, class, and individualism, which served to sustain a pale social democratic reform for just a few decades. What followed instead was today's new Gilded Age.

Vavi’s May Day call: New labour federation set for weekend launch

Greg Nicolson Daily Maverick
A new union federation in South Africa is being formed through the leadership of unions and individuals expelled from Cosatu with the aim of organizing the unorganized -- Cosatu denounced the move as divisive and as leading away from the struggle for jobs and against monopoly capital.

Tidbits - May 5, 2016 - Reader Comments: Daniel Berrigan; Gary Tyler Free; The People's Summit; The Sanders Campaign; When Socialists Won Elections; Liberalism's Crisis; and more...

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Reader Comments: The Life and Death of Daniel Berrigan; Gary Tyler Free After More Than 40 Years; Does an Inside-Outside Strategy Have a Chance? - The People's Summit; Sanders' Impact on Millennials; Digital history project - When Socialists Won Elections; Get Cops Out of Schools; What's the Israeli Army Afraid Of? - Tair Kaminer Fights On; Italian Court Rules Food Theft 'Not a Crime' If Hungry; Rolling Stones to Trump: Stop Using Their Songs at Campaign Events