Tag: Donald Trump
The past and the future can inspire resistance now
These are alarming days for our country. One thing I do to get through them, other than cutting back on cable TV news, is...
Roe will be the first to fall. It won’t be the...
Near midnight, after Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico, I decided to stay up late writing a...
Fighting the fascist threat in America
Hillary Clinton said in September 2016, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call...
The conceit that it cannot happen here
After 9/11 and January 6, it is odd that Americans so often think of our country as inviolate.
Granted, there are significant differences in scale...
Tilting at trolls and Uncle Ruckus
“Don’t feed the trolls,” my friend Mark Thompson tells me after watching me cross words on Twitter with some right-wing genius patriots, as they...
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