Trump is exaggerating the violence in cities to the point of caricature — countering statements by local and state law enforcement.
August 31, 2020Trump is clearly trying to change the national narrative from his disastrous response to the coronavirus and the economic crash to the idea that he alone can protect white Americans from their dangerous Black neighbors.
August 30, 2020The pandemic, street protests, Russian meddling, election security?
August 3, 2020Throw everything at the wall...
July 28, 2020Attorney General William Barr will testify before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow for the first time. The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president’s lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law. (The office of the president has its own lawyer—the White House Counsel—and the president has his own bevy of personal lawyers.)
July 23, 2020In search of violent anarchists
July 21, 2020"LAW AND ORDER" vs. Moms
June 23, 2020In April 1967, at New York City’s Riverside Church, Dr. King delivered a sermon that offered a profound diagnosis of the illnesses afflicting the nation. King summoned the nation to “undergo a radical revolution of values” that would transform the United States “from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.” Only through such a revolution, he declared, would we be able to overcome “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.”
June 19, 2020We are deep in the age of disappointment on (as Donald Trump has only accentuated) an increasingly disposable planet.
June 12, 2020Reporting you might have missed.
