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Donald Trump Wants to Bury America With Him
His speech at the GOP's midterm convention came off like a Jim Jones sermon.
You Won’t Win the Revolution
The descent of stable societies into ones of endemic violence rarely produces anything but new forms of tyranny and terror.
Natalie Harp and the American Don (Juan)
Even as the right cheers Trump dispensing punishment to their enemies, they crave to be disciplined themselves.
Trump’s Desecration of Big Bend Reminds Us Nothing Is Sacred in His America
Yet another example of how his nationalism prioritizes exclusion over veneration of what makes that nation great.
The Parasocial Style in American Politics, Part 2: Witch Hunts and Comfort Blankets
As during witch hunts, social media enables a process of rendering people into totemic figures in a war between Good and Evil.
You Can't Decommodify Housing If You Have No Housing (The Editors' Chat #16)
Politics can consume communities.
The New Vandals
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.
Liberty and Death: Lindsey Graham and the America We Live In
Many progressives have spit on the grave of a man who was happy to trample over their rights and dignities.
What, to the MAGA Right, Is a Child?
The right views children as a resource rather than as human beings.
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exaltation of callousness.
Donald Trump Put America in a Cage Match With Itself. We Lost.
This was never for the American people; it was for the most vicious and barbarous among us.