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Democracy asks ‘the people’ to think of themselves as ‘a people’
Americans rarely do, though.
Trump’s roundabout confession to the crime
Meanwhile, the GOP is rewriting that horrible day’s history.
In mourning
About this week.
On Ukraine, the left and right parrot Putin’s propaganda
Look, Russia is the real aggressor.
The day a vice president accused ‘several million’ Americans of being fascists
Henry Wallace pulled no punches.
Whoopi Goldberg engaged a difficult conversation and misunderstood some of it. Suspending her doesn’t help
In reality, race makes no sense. So it’s no surprise that racism is inconsistent and nonsensical or that talking about it is confusing.
Face it, impeachment doesn’t work. Trump proved Congress can’t check a criminal president
Impeachment has never been helpful. It might be harmful, though.
When it comes to Supreme Court picks, just remember that we are living in a period of white backlash against Black progress
Moral panics are an American tradition.
What if we replaced all federal levies, including the income tax, with a tax on land?
In Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore, redistribution of land, land taxes and land leasing pay for universal health care, education and more.
Police killings are ‘state crimes’
A cultural and legal machine built to subjugate.