Baron Wormser: Salvation
On Flannery O’Connor, Donald Trump, and American Violence
Charles Davidson: When a Cardinal Capitulates before Trump as a Pope Did before Hitler
What might Cardinal Dolan say to his friend Donald Trump, should Mr. Trump order the Department of Homeland Security to separate, arrest, incarcerate, and deport millions of immigrant human beings from across this nation?
Video: VP Harris uses Trump’s own words about “the enemy within” to prosecute him
Lawrence O’Donnell details how Vice President Harris played Donald Trump’s “dangerous” remarks directly for voters in Pennsylvania to prosecute the case that Trump is too “unstable and unhinged” to be president again.
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.
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.
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.
Jeffrey Sterling: A Whistleblower’s First Post-Prison Trip Abroad
I wasn’t on that stage just to scare the audience about how horrible it will be to be charged under the Espionage Act, I was there to tell them that if I could stand up against it, so can the rest of the world.
Baron Wormser: Disunited Delusions
Donald Trump, as an unrestrained American ego, seems like an allegorical figure of the sort that Melville had a fondness for—the Confidence Man, par excellence.
John Edward Simms: Dirge
The Republican Party I grew up with was built on the two principles of family values and fiscal responsibility. Donald Trump is not the great leader he believes he is, because he lacks two essential qualities: Character and Competence.
Paul Christensen: Pomegranates in Winter
Snow reminds me of the chalky blackboards of my childhood, the ones I was required to wash with a fat sponge and a bucket of water. A nun would occasionally check up on me to see that my labors were done in earnest.
Jake Johnson: Conservative Legal Scholars Argue Trump Is Disqualified for Office Under 14th Amendment
“Trump is disqualified from holding any public office, including the office of the president, under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Rebecca Gordon: Yes, We Have Home-Grown Fascists
Are Queer People the New Jews?
Clarence Lusane: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis
Two Peas in a White Nationalist Pod
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)?