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No person who loves their country and takes its security seriously could ever even remotely consider voting for Jim Jordan, a preposterous figure whose rise portends a national catastrophe every bit as much as Trump’s did.
The right wing faces crises with incompetence or cynical exploitation: Bush and Hurricane Katrina; Netanyahu and Gaza; Trump and Covid, or tossing paper towels at hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.
As we come to another contentious election cycle, understanding dark money will become increasingly important. Here are some of the basics.
It is important to understand the distinctions between patriotism and nationalism, especially since there has been intentional misuse and hijacking of both by the far right.
Russia is close to having the upper hand Ukraine because of Putin’s ability to get American Republican politicians to mouth his talking points and propaganda.
The Hamas-Israel violence, present and past, are vast and sprawling horrors that have been metastasizing for thousands of years. How can any of us claim we’re capable of making sense out of it, let alone sum it up in a few words?
Jim Jordan does not even qualify for Congress, much less Speaker. He was all in on the subversive plot to seize an unearned second term for the defeated president by invalidating millions of legitimate American votes.
News media interested in crime—its impact on human beings, on society, its cost to the economy—would be interested in wage theft, the more than $50 billion a year stolen from workers in this country.
Not all Nazis wear swastikas: Emboldened by former President Donald Trump, white nationalists walk among us, and not all of them will be as clumsy as Franklin Alderman Gabrielle Hanson in revealing their politics.
We’ve come too far to let civilization go to evil elements. Evil will not go away on its own. Evil must be confronted and extricated from society for us to breathe the air of freedom.
DeSantis is using the horror of the Israel-Hamas war as a campaign stunt, to protect Florida from non-existence violence and calling himself the “most pro-Israel governor” in the country.
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
California’s new laws mean oil and gas companies like Chevron will likely have to account for emissions from vehicles that use their gasoline, and Apple will have to account for materials that go into iPhones.
Israel has one of the most capable and sophisticated intelligence enterprises. Yet some Israeli officials have said they believed Hamas lacked the capability to launch an attack on the scope and scale of what occurred.
Citizens of Gaza won’t be carrying Hamas flags. They’ll be wearing flip flops and loose pants and t-shirts like any other young Palestinian man in Gaza. So who do you fight?
I am not going to try to or even attempt to explain or judge or anything. This was and is pure hell on earth and someone or something must pay for it.
