RussiaGate a crucial test for American media
The CIA has publicly announced that it has “high confidence” that the Russians not only attempted to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but that they did so in order to help elect Donald...
View ArticleTrump won. What are we going to do about it?
The Big Orange Buffoon won a freak victory with the help of a little voter suppression, a little Russian assistance and a direct line to the ugliest part of the national id. We on the left have...
View ArticleNormalizing Trump
Joe Biden said it while presiding over the counting of the votes of the Electoral College in the House of Representatives yesterday: “It’s over.” The vote effectively delivered a license for the Trump...
View ArticleShock therapy: To Russia from the U.S, From Russia back to the U.S ... with...
It is now common knowledge that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was personally behind efforts to intervene in the 2016 American presidential election. We also know that President-elect Donald Trump was Putin’s...
View ArticleWhy we need congressmen and women to boycott the inauguration
As of 10:29 am to day, Jan. 19, 2017, 65 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have announced that they'll be skipping Donald Trump's inauguration. Rep. Lacy Clay (D-1) is one of the 65. He's...
View ArticleThe Big Lie and Trump's inauguration speech
TPM’s Josh Marshall cautions against despair as we contemplate a Trump presidency. He acknowledges that the man and the direction that he will take our country is clear and has been so for a long time...
View ArticleCan progressive feminists make common cause with anti-abortion feminists?
In the media reports of the Women’s March on January 21 and following the anti-abortion March on the 27th some conservative women expressed self-righteous outrage that their participation wasn’t...
View ArticleBen Carson - the lone African American in Trumpland shows us how its done
Re the Huffington Post, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) met with the agency’s employees today and his remarks were just as surreal what we’ve come to expect from...
View ArticleOptimism vs. pessimism: Is Ruy Teixeira right - will we survive the...
Ruy Teixeira is a well-known political analyst and a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and The Center for American Progress. He’s written a new book with the provocative title, The Optimistic...
View ArticleThe Great GOP AHCA vote auction: Sold! To the highest bidder
Apropos the political disaster that has resulted from Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with something “better” (a.k.a. the GOP Dump and Dupe operation), Kevin...
View ArticleIs the resistance flagging already?
In recent days there has been quite a bit of media coverage, including a few diaries on DailyKos (see here and here for today’s most prominent offerings) on the topic of the Senate’s rush to push a...
View ArticleSometimes Scaramuccia even loses his head
Antony Scaramucci, a wealthy financier, Trump sycophant and, as David Brooks put it on the PBS NewsHour yesterday (7/21), a “bro,” is, as everyone knows by now, the new White House communications...
View ArticleNo more lambs to the slaughter
There s a common canard that German Jews submitted passively to Nazi atrocities and had they only resisted, there would have been no Holocaust. This belief is demonstrably false. There were many...
View ArticleDangerous TV: The Blacklist gave us an idealized Trump before there was...
One thing that the last presidential election shows us is that successful politicians and political movements need to have not only a consistent narrative, but one that strikes an emotionally resonant...
View ArticleNormalizing Trump
Joe Biden said it while presiding over the counting of the votes of the Electoral College in the House of Representatives yesterday: “It’s over.” The vote effectively delivered a license for the Trump...
View ArticleShock therapy: To Russia from the U.S, From Russia back to the U.S ... with...
It is now common knowledge that Russia’s Vladimir Putin was personally behind efforts to intervene in the 2016 American presidential election. We also know that President-elect Donald Trump was Putin’s...
View ArticleWhy we need congressmen and women to boycott the inauguration
As of 10:29 am to day, Jan. 19, 2017, 65 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have announced that they'll be skipping Donald Trump's inauguration. Rep. Lacy Clay (D-1) is one of the 65. He's...
View ArticleThe Big Lie and Trump's inauguration speech
TPM’s Josh Marshall cautions against despair as we contemplate a Trump presidency. He acknowledges that the man and the direction that he will take our country is clear and has been so for a long time...
View ArticleCan progressive feminists make common cause with anti-abortion feminists?
In the media reports of the Women’s March on January 21 and following the anti-abortion March on the 27th some conservative women expressed self-righteous outrage that their participation wasn’t...
View ArticleBen Carson - the lone African American in Trumpland shows us how its done
Re the Huffington Post, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) met with the agency’s employees today and his remarks were just as surreal what we’ve come to expect from...
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