One woman yearns to have a president who resembles her … and has concluded that resemblance in values is more important than resemblance in gender.

Unscrupulous right-wing extremists circulated false information about the Iowa caucuses to try to discourage participation.

The US system of primary elections is badly flawed as a way of representing the voter's preferences. This article proposes improvements.

*America, founded on the evils of slavery, genocide and the violent exploitation of the working class, is a country defined by historical amnesia.*

(The history of the US includes all three, but not all at the same time. Violent exploitation of the working class wasn't a very big factor until after the Civil War. Before then, most Americans lived on farms.)

The most interesting part of article is the part about Joseph Roth and what to do after vicious inhumanity has taken over your country and civilization has been defeated.

A retired general in El Salvador admitted that the US-trained Atlacatl Battalion killed 800 civilians in 1981. The US, under Reagan, helped cover this up, through attacking the US reporter who had written about it.

The "School of the Americas" became notorious for such "training". In response to demands to shut it down, the US changed its name.

A few years later, Reagan started funding a right-wing militia to destabilize Nicaragua through terrorism, and paying for it by selling arms to Iran.