Ignoring fascism doesn’t make it go away; it ensures its survival. We’re here in this precarious place, partly because so many people took the way of least resistance.
So far, the files have exposed this Republican Party as a vile and morally inverted cadre of broken humans marching and voting in lock-step to protect predators and pedophiles and laugh in the face of their survivors.
How do otherwise reasonable, self-respecting adult women find themselves staunch defenders of a man whose entire grotesque body of work declares that he has complete contempt for them?
All hatred is rooted in ignorance, and since hatred is the Republican Party’s sole political platform, they must propagate a steady stream of that ignorance.
It’s so befuddling that a man like Donald J. Trump, with all his wealth and all his power, isn’t fighting these allegedly false stories linking him to Epstein’s crimes.
One day, hard as it is to imagine right now, he will be extinct, and it will be our jobs to make sure as much of his gruesome legacy as possible dies with him.
If they’re honest, most MAGA Republicans feel more affinity to a vicious, vengeful billionaire in Lex Luthor than in Clark Kent’s alter ego’s boundless benevolence toward the disparate human beings in his path.
Florida now has statutes forbidding teaching the truth about slavery and Jim Crow, threatening educators who discuss gender, sexuality, systemic racism, and other disfavored topics.
Weaponized patriotism is an intoxicant for easily manipulated people whose identities are shaped by those they hate, the neighbors and strangers they’ve been convinced are threats to be eradicated and dangers to be sent away.
This year's 4th of July is the right time to repudiate Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi and all the rest of the empowered insurrectionists.
The Supreme Court didn’t just fail to uphold justice—it enabled a nightmare in which legal protections mean nothing, human rights are ignored, and fear becomes the tool of control.