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
Baron Wormser: The Holy War
What resides within Christianity… is the God-person whose life and times were radical and disruptive.
Paul Christensen: The Future of an Illusion
He is already shriveling into an empty legend, a flimsy cartoon of ruthless malevolence.
Brett Wilkins: This P*ssy Grabbed Back
Daniels says she’s undaunted by the prospect of facing Trump in court. “I’ve seen him naked,” she explained. “There’s no way he could be scarier with his clothes on.”
Karen J. Greenburg: The Real Failure of January 6th
How America’s Insurrectionists Crossed the Rubicon of History
Bridget J. Crawford: New York’s $250 million lawsuit against Donald Trump is the beginning, not end, of this case – a tax lawyer explains what’s at stake
New York Attorney General Letitia James hit former president Donald Trump with a US$250 million lawsuit on Sept. 21, 2022, citing “staggering” amounts of falsified business information and fraud.
Tom Engelhardt: Living in a Sci-fi World
Honestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face.
Tom Engelhardt: The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me)
I find myself experiencing three versions of that ultimate story: that of my own fall; that of my country; and that of an increasingly overheating planet as a habitable place for us all.
Hugo Lowell: Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act, warrant reveals
Details contained in explosive search warrant show US officials investigating whether three criminal statutes violated
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