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Brett Wilkins: Congressman Mike Collins Cheers Video of Ole Miss Mob Attack on Black Student

This is not about Israel, Palestine, or Gaza. This is old-fashioned American racism and misogyny…

May 7, 2024 · 3 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Republicans Have Plans for Working People

And You’re Not Going to Like Them

April 12, 2024 · 4 Comments

Baron Wormser: Vistas

I don’t doubt that somewhere in the United States some class or reading group, as a way of girding their collective loins for the upcoming election, is reading or rereading Democratic Vistas, an 1871 essay in which Walt Whitman surveyed American democracy’s prospects.

April 2, 2024 · 3 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time Around

Trump 2.0 Would Be Even Worse

March 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Patricia A. Nugent: Dog Poop

His veiled threat obviously didn’t shut me up; I can’t let it. As Audre Lourde reminds us, “Your silence will not protect you.” 

December 9, 2023 · 14 Comments

Clarence Lusane: Make America Fascist Again (MAFA!)

The Future If Donald Trump Returns to the Oval Office

December 6, 2023 · 7 Comments

Thom Hartman: Trump’s Similarities to Hitler Prove It Certainly Could Happen Here

There are few Americans alive today who remember Hitler. But Donald Trump is bringing it all back with a fresh, stark splash of reality.

November 27, 2023 · 11 Comments

Norman L. Eisen, et al: Calendar of the Most Important Trump Criminal & Civil Court Dates

Here are the top 20 legal and political dates as of now.

November 15, 2023 · Leave a comment

Baron Wormser: The Dark Sky | Politics and Its Discontents

It may be that the love that lives within us cannot be turned toward something as large and seemingly abstract as the earth. But the earth isn’t abstract at all. Each moment is local and real and is always a place where we might begin.

October 8, 2023 · 7 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: Ban All Books But Mine

Ron DeSantis is doing a Model Press Conference with Florida high schoolers at P.S. 47, aka Our Lady of Stand Your Ground Middle School in Panacea.

September 16, 2023 · 9 Comments

Abby Zimet: Big Tough Weird LGBTQ-Bashing American Psycho Guy Wants Your Vote and What Could Go Wrong?

Whew. Latest proof the GOP is truly a malignant flaming clown car.

July 6, 2023 · 9 Comments

Clarence Lusane: The Decline of Democracy

White Christian Nationalism now forms the basis of the Republican Party and is now targeting every facet of public life.

December 2, 2022 · 3 Comments

Abby Zimet: OMFG Just No

Why isn’t he in jail yet?

November 17, 2022 · 4 Comments

Abby Zimet: ReAwakening To Insect Burgers, Deep-State Trash, Globalist Predators and Demonic Satellites, Praise God

We regret to inform you that a bewilderingly sizeable segment of our country has mutated into a horde of racist, crackpot, paranoid, Covid-denying, demon-obsessed, anti-trans-and-illuminati-and-quantum-physics “Army of God” warriors…

October 27, 2022 · 6 Comments

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