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Michael Simms: How to Canvass Door-to-Door

Speaking with voters face-to-face is one of the best ways to educate, persuade, and mobilize them to vote for a candidate or cause, making door-to-door canvassing an essential part of any political campaign.

August 10, 2024 · 11 Comments

Christine Rhein: Attack of the Five-Foot-Four Woman 

In truth, only five foot three and a half,
and attack, too, a bit of a stretch

August 10, 2024 · 10 Comments

Alliyah Lusuegro: Mass Deportations Would Be a Nightmare

Mass deportations would tear millions of families apart, including mine. It would also be a moral, logistical, and economic disaster.

August 8, 2024 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds

Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the “right and honorable thing” and handed the reins to Kamala, “in every possible way (the) anti-Trump,” who ran with them.

July 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

Jason Irwin: Witness to History

My Experience at the Trump Rally, July 13, 2024, Butler, PA

July 22, 2024 · 1 Comment

Jeffrey C. Isaac: Republicans’ Feigned Outrage Must Not Be Allowed To Buoy Trump

The danger of Trump and of Trumpism is more real today than it was 24 hours ago.

July 15, 2024 · 2 Comments

Assassination attempt on Trump in Western Pennsylvania

A gunman opened fire at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday, injuring him and causing him to be rushed offstage in a dramatic scene just days before he’s set to be nominated as the Republican presidential nominee.

July 14, 2024 · 5 Comments

Abby Zimet: From Founding Fathers Kermit and Gandalf to Mugshot $2 Bills | Make Crass Stupidity Embarrassing Again

Nazis, yahoos, hacks, thugs, soulless partisans and ahistorical morons are today’s GOP. Have we bottomed out yet (please)? 

July 12, 2024 · 1 Comment

Rachel Hadas: ‘The immortal Gods alone have neither age nor death’: Wisdom from Greek tragedies for Joe Biden

It’s useful to think about the potential strengths, as well as the vulnerabilities, of age.

July 11, 2024 · 7 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of Our Democracy

The rapid pace of Gaza’s descent into famine is remarkable among conflicts.

July 9, 2024 · 7 Comments

John Feffer: You Think Trump Is Bad?

Recent elections have elevated far-right parties all over the world. And the worst is perhaps yet to come.

June 24, 2024 · 5 Comments

Baron Wormser: Greening

The contest between Trump and Biden represents an allegory come to life of the two forms of consciousness: one candidate who espouses a derisive and divisive let-it-rip individualism that is indifferent to, among other things, truth, and one candidate who has spent a lifetime ministering to the needs of the Corporate State.

June 23, 2024 · 3 Comments

Abby Zimet: Holy, Holy, Holy | Guilty As F-ck Of Absolutely Everything

Along with his endless squealing and whining about a witch hunt, Trump outlandishly compared himself to Mother Teresa.

May 31, 2024 · 5 Comments

Gabriel J. Chin: Trump found guilty | 5 key aspects of the trial explained by a law professor

After the conviction of former President Donald Trump on 34 felony countsof falsifying business records in New York, what comes next?

May 31, 2024 · 6 Comments

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