Branko Marcetic

4 days ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups regularly team up to beat back what they increasingly see as their common enemy: a grassroots-led socialist and progressive movement rising within the Democratic Party — usually by jumping into the party’s primaries to try to crush left-wing insurgents and incumbents. Last year, that strategy saw an avalanche of corporate money funneled through pro-Israel PACs unseat two members of the left-wing Squad from Congress.

1 week ago | savageminds.substack.com | Branko Marcetic

Book review of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (HarperCollins, 2025) and Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (Penguin, 2025)Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThere is no other rational response to the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline and infirmity than anger.

1 week ago | znetwork.org | Branko Marcetic

Review of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (HarperCollins, 2025) and Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson (Penguin, 2025)There is no other rational response to the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline and infirmity than anger.

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

There is no other rational response to the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline and infirmity than anger. If you’re an American, it should make you angry that the many people who knew better stayed silent about, even actively conspired to hide, the fact that Biden wasn’t actually capable of executing his responsibilities as president, handing untold amounts of power to a cabal of advisors you never voted for.

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

It’s clichéd but true that personnel is policy. The kinds of people a president chooses to helm the machinery of government are usually far more important to deciding the direction of an administration than that president’s rhetoric. And unknown appointees in obscure posts can sometimes be more influential than big names in flashy positions. Just think of the way Dick Cheney dominated George W. Bush’s administration by installing allies in crucial but little-known offices.