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David Faris

David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and a frequent contributor to Informed Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Indy Week. He is author of It’s Time To Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. The New York Times called it "a short, bracing polemic." His first book was Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age: Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt (I.B. Tauris, 2013).

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Donald Trump
The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office

The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In his perfunctory farewell speech, released on Tuesday many months after he had churlishly quit on the American people in their greatest hour of need, Donald Trump claimed that he and his band of inept rapscallions had come to Washington to “restore the allegiance of this government to its […]

Democratic Party
After the GOP Insurrection:  The Democrats only have 18 Months to Save Democracy with a Transformative Agenda

After the GOP Insurrection: The Democrats only have 18 Months to Save Democracy with a Transformative Agenda

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – The shocking Democratic sweep of Georgia’s double-barrel Senate runoffs, and the promise of unified Democratic control in D.C. for the first time in decade, should instantly reinvigorate an intra-party debate that had been shelved since the relatively disappointing results of the November 3rd general election: to escalate or not […]

Democracy
Less than 8 Weeks to Save our Democracy from a Grotesque, Bigoted, illiterate Game Show Host and Real Estate Grifter

Less than 8 Weeks to Save our Democracy from a Grotesque, Bigoted, illiterate Game Show Host and Real Estate Grifter

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In 2016, thanks largely to the antiquated, nonsensical design of its creaky electoral system, the U.S. presidency was awarded to a candidate who lost the election by nearly 3 million votes to his opponent. This elderly man, a functionally illiterate game show host and petty real estate grifter with […]

Donald Trump
Trump has Quit on Us: The President is conducting a sit-down strike in his bedroom while the country burns

Trump has Quit on Us: The President is conducting a sit-down strike in his bedroom while the country burns

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Over the past month, it has become painfully clear even to millions of people who voted for him in 2016 that Donald Trump is deeply uninterested in doing the job he was entrusted with. In the face of the worst crisis to confront human civilization in nearly a century, […]

Donald Trump
Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll:  The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

Kooks, Never-Maskers and our Pandemic Death Toll: The High Cost of Republican Malevolence

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Today the United States eclipsed 125,000 deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic, and the worst might be yet to come. Despite having months to right-foot the White House’s initial, lackadaisical response to the looming disaster, the country is in many ways in a more dire position than it was in […]

Arab Spring
The Authoritarian Logic of Killing Protesters

The Authoritarian Logic of Killing Protesters

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On October 9th, 2011, Egyptian army vehicles plowed into a Coptic Christian protest outside of the Maspero state television building in the capital city of Cairo, killing more than two dozen peaceful demonstrators. Less than a year after the Arab Spring came to Cairo and dislodged the country’s longtime […]

Donald Trump
The Scum of all Fears: America declines the Trump Administration’s Invitation to Die

The Scum of all Fears: America declines the Trump Administration’s Invitation to Die

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump, facing the prospect of possibly the worst electoral environment ever to face an incumbent president, is borrowing a page from the last Republican administration, the one that ended with a sitting president so universally reviled that he decided to skip his own party’s nominating convention. America’s 45th […]

Donald Trump
Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn’t so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

Maybe that Imperial Presidency Idea wasn’t so Great: The Coronavirus Reveals that America Long Since Fell Apart

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – If you were asked three months ago, when news of the novel Coronavirus we now call Covid-19 was just emerging from China, which rich country in the world was the most defenseless against a global viral pandemic, would you have said anything but the United States? The Coronavirus crisis […]

Bernie Sanders
The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

The Dem Primary is Over, and we need Bernie Sanders to lead on Health Care from the Senate

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – On Tuesday, I cast a joyless vote for the very much politically doomed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Illinois primary, in an elementary school where hushed whispers and fearful glances had replaced the normal din of an election day. There was no one standing just outside the perimeter […]

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