Two Lessons from Hungary for 2026 and 2028
Unity and accountability.
Alan Elrod
Alan Elrod is the president & CEO of the Pulaski Institution, an Arkansas-based think tank. He is also a columnist and Contributing Editor at Liberal Currents.
After a Dark Week, Americans Should Turn to Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech
Carter was panned at the time, and long after, but has been vindicated.
Abuser Politics: Christian Male Supremacists Want Women to Shut Up
The desire for quiet women—really for silent women—in every public forum is neither about adherence to Biblical truth nor the revelation of natural law.
Cringe Is Good, Earnestness Is Strength
On irony poisoning and the importance of being earnest.
Iran, Slopulism, and the Eternal Innocence of the American People
Popular sovereignty means we must all take responsibility for the outcomes of our choices at the ballot box.
Right-Wing Attacks on James Talarico Are a Reminder That Christian Extremism Is Official Republican Policy
The reaction to Talarico's Christian rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which far-right theology is about underwriting misogyny and racism.
Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s Body Obsessions
How Republicans went from the party of prudes to the party of perversion.
Trump’s State of the Union Reminds Us the Republican Party Is Truly Lost
More evidence that the Republican Party has been entirely transformed into the party of violence and authoritarianism.
We Need to Talk About the Right’s New Voter Suppression Target: Women
The SAVE Act would make it harder for married women in particular to vote, and that is just one part of the MAGA right's misogynist project.
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
None More Wonderful Than Man: Art, Artists, and MAGA’s Hollow View of Humanity
MAGA sees art as nothing more than a tool of self-aggrandizement, and artists as less than human.
After Alex Pretti’s Murder, It’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors
MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.