Doug Anderson: The Dictator
He built a wall around himself and demanded
that his image be painted on the inside of the wall
looking back so he could imagine the shouts
on the outside were cheers for him
Daniel Burston: A Dirge for American Democracy
Authoritarian populism, brazen corruption and wild conspiracy theories are so prevalent that we are thoroughly enmeshed in what some call a “mafia state”, teetering on the brink of fascism…
Steven Rosenfeld: GOP Resists Voting By Mail In Red States
Many conservative politicians are resisting best-practice reforms intended to protect voters from the Covid virus.
Peter Lake: Failing the State
Rickety, broken even, as American government and society in many ways are, they have not, until of late, been simply failed. Rather they have been, and are being, failed by the Trump administration and the Republican Party
George T. Conway, III et al: We’ve never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated.
We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.
Abby Zimet: First Do No Harm, Or Wait Maybe Just A Little If It’s Good For Our Ratings
A new study has found that the Fox-and-Trump-touted malaria drug hydroxychloroquine not only didn’t benefit COVID-19 patients, but killed more of them than those given standard care.
Rebecca Gordon: Strange Attractors
On Being Addicted to Trump and His Press Conferences
Peter Lake: How to Get Reelected Republican Style
Trump is not an aberration but the natural consequence of central strands in Republican party politics and political maneuver over the last thirty years.
Florina Rodov: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Powerful Lessons for a Stronger Post-Coronavirus America
The political activist and author imagines a country where all people, not just the wealthy, can live with dignity.
Jeffrey D. Sachs: Why the US Has the World’s Highest Number of Covid-19 Deaths
Unlike China, which turned to its public health experts, Trump turned to Vice President Mike Pence and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Thousands of Americans are dying unnecessarily as a result and … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Murderous Fail After Fail
So yes: Trump has blood on his tiny, stubby, murderous hands.
Robert Wrigley: Two Poems
they rise and form their three- or four-bird patrols
leaving the haunted campus behind,
until the priest raven perches alone and calls,
in search of the people none of them can find.
Karen J. Greenberg: While Rome Burns, Trump Gets What He’s Always Wanted
In unsettling ways, the crisis is working for him as previously untenable policy options are becoming essential to curtailing the coronavirus.
Abby Zimet: A Very Good Job (At Slow-Rolling, Mass Negligent Homicide)
On a day the U.S. saw over 139,000 cases and at least 2,425 deaths, the ever-classy Trump boasted his briefings’ “ratings” reached “Bachelor Finale, Monday Night Football type numbers.”
