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The mean old man of the GOP is dead
Bob Dole 1923-2021.
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Democracy isn’t ‘backsliding.’ Equality is
Equality has been presumed in the word ‘democracy’ since the postwar era. We may not be able to presume that much longer.
Post-Roe, American women will be separate and unequal
The United States will be a crazy-quilt of abortion laws in which some women have rights and some don’t, depending on where they live.
Stop laughing at Michael Flynn
The former Trump advisor is spearheading a project to build a violent, ultra-nationalist, ultra-Christian right to take control of America.
Alex Wise interviews me
A change of pace.
Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.
The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery
They are not respecting “life.” They are fearing “race suicide.”