The Third Red Scare
“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.
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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.
Graham Platner and the Class Politics of Impunity
Solidarity with working class women never seems to enter into it.
The Men Defending Graham Platner in All the Wrong Ways
You cannot defeat misogyny by behaving like a misogynist.
Hell Is Empty, and All the Ken Paxtons Are Here
Paxton is bigoted, felonious, and an exemplar of the new American politics.
Fighting the Omni-Flamewar (The Editors' Chat #14)
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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
The Parasocial Style in American Politics
Our screens are two-way but we can easily forget that the people on the other end exist as more than characters for our enjoyment.