America Now Has (at Least) 9,999 Problems
When I wrote this piece, “The Hole in Obama’s Legacy,” for The New Yorker back in August, I did not, even briefly, imagine that Obama’s failure to reach the white working class would lead to a Trump...
View ArticleAn Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat
It may seem small in the saga of President Trump’s first two weeks, but according to The Washington Post, there’s a good chance he’ll appoint an actual war criminal to be the second-ranking US...
View ArticleThe Media’s Addiction to False Equivalencies Has Left Them Vulnerable to Trump
To merely make it through the day with one’s sanity intact is no small task during Donald Trump’s presidency. There are so many moving targets, and they proliferate so quickly, that it’s all but...
View ArticleTrump for Young Readers
Donald Trump is pretty much a walking advertisement for everything we don’t want our children to be. And yet he’s the president. Children are supposed to respect the president. What are children's...
View ArticleAlex Jones Is a Practiced Swindler — Just Like His Biggest Fan
Somebody is “putting chemicals in the water that turn the frickin’ frogs gay.” The Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax perpetrated by a group of pro-gun-control parents who faked the murder of their own...
View ArticleTrump’s Allies Are Taking Over the Media and Creating Their Own Reality
On July 17, the Idaho television station KBOI tweeted a story about a would-be robber who allegedly “arrives early at banks to find doors locked.” Even more confusing than the indecipherable English...
View ArticleThe World of Cable News Is Trump’s Reality
Like Waylon Jennings, cable news has always been crazy. CNN, after all, was founded by Ted Turner. (Sample wisdom: “Castro’s not a communist. He’s like me — a dictator.”) MSNBC has gone through more...
View ArticleHow Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President Trump
Two rules journalists live by: Keep things simple and straightforward and be fair to “both sides.” Continue reading The post How Conservatives Manipulated the Mainstream Media to Give Us President...
View ArticleSoros Slander Reveals Anti-Semitism at the Heart of the Far Right
On Aug. 31, convicted felon and right-wing provocateur Dinesh D’Souza tweeted that he thought it would be “interesting to see” the liberal financier and philanthropist George Soros “extradited to...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have to Publish Both Sides When One Side Is Fascism
This post first appeared on TheNation.com The Trump administration and its Republican enablers are fighting a series of wars directed at targets inside the United States. A partial list would include...
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