If Nazis marching through town squares and supremacist politicians and election interference fall beneath your radar, you either intentionally have your head in the sand or it isn’t on straight to begin with—and either is a problem.
There is no persecution of Christians in America. The persecuted are those who belong to disfavored cultures—Afghan or Latino or Black—those who express their sexuality in a disfavored way or speak out disfavored opinions.
The children at Sandy Hook and Parkland and Uvalde and Brown University, and hundreds of other schools in America, deserve better than to become faceless, nameless, storyless numbers added to our perpetual national failure.
Underlying Conservative opposition to universal healthcare is ultimately selfishness: the belief that they are forever living in scarcity, that someone else’s gain must automatically be their loss.
Republicans could have single-handedly emancipated this nation from a ten-year Constitutional crisis, but they chose to bend the knee, kiss the ring, and give a middle finger to our forbears and to the entire planet.
World War II should have been the death knell for fascism, but as we now know, fascism never dies. It just hibernates until the right sort comes along and reanimates it; an apostle of mass-manipulation, of lies, an exploiter of racism.
Hegseth labors under the delusion that the Department of Defense is purely some sort of killing machine. We don't need to waste our time anymore trying to convince him otherwise.
There’s just no way the future historians are going to believe any of this happened. After witnessing it and writing about it for ten years myself, it’s all just too surreal.
In 1943, Rockwell's paintings weren’t just popular art but an articulation of what many Americans were searching to put into words. What were we fighting for? What are the things that are most precious to us?