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  • Letters From an American
    Twitter Is Ablaze — Not Portland
    September 1, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump is exaggerating the violence in cities to the point of caricature — countering statements by local and state law enforcement.

  • Letters From an American
    The Problem with Portland
    August 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump 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.

  • Letters From an American
    Where to Start?
    August 30, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The pandemic, street protests, Russian meddling, election security?
  • Letters From an American
    Trump's Scattershot Campaign Strategy
    August 3, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Throw everything at the wall...
  • Letters From an American
    Barr Doubles Down
    July 28, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Attorney 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.)

  • Letters From an American
    The President's Personal Militia
    July 23, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    In search of violent anarchists
  • Letters From an American
    Trump Sends Federal Troops to Cities Run by Democrats
    July 21, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    "LAW AND ORDER" vs. Moms
  • History
    Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets: Racism, Yes, But What About Militarism and Materialism?
    June 23, 2020
    | Andrew Bacevich

    In 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.”

  • Democracy & Government
    How the American Century Ends
    June 19, 2020
    | Tom Engelhardt

    We are deep in the age of disappointment on (as Donald Trump has only accentuated) an increasingly disposable planet.

  • Democracy & Government
    In Other News: Mnuchin Refuses To Say Where $500 Billion in Taxpayer Money Went 
    June 12, 2020

    Reporting you might have missed.



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