politics
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A Christian Nation…?
According to a poll conducted by the University of Maryland in May 2024, “Fully 61 percent of Republicans supported declaring the United States a Christian nation.” (http://tiny.cc/q548). These same Republicans roared their approval when Donald…
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Avoiding the guillotine
I’ve written a short piece for the Minnesota Reformer about the defeat of the Rassemblement National in the second round of the French elections. Read more here: https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/10/heres-what-the-french-anti-fascist-election-coalition-can-teach-us-here/
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Truth Social: Lifeline, Jackpot, Windfall, Bonanza — or Bust?
Headline writers for every paper in America have been proclaiming that Donald Trump is about to reap a staggering windfall from the merger of his social hellscape, Truth Social, with a “Special Purpose Acquisition Company”…
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Unselfish Public Service?
As we get learn more about the indictment of Senator Robert Menendez, it’s worth remembering that virtue has long been one of the cardinal values of functioning democratic states. Almost three hundred years ago, the…
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Farm Aid 2023: Reason for Hope
Last week I travelled to Noblesville, Indiana. Never heard of it? I hadn’t, either, but it was the site of this year’s Farm Aid, an annual music, food, and farm festival. As its website says,…
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Unmasking America: the GOP’s war on science, evidence, and truth
There are over 10 million cases of Covid-19 worldwide. More than a quarter of those are in the United States. Why? Because of the GOP’s unrelenting war on science, evidence, rigor, and truth. The GOP…
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Why my Republican Member of Congress is wrong to vote against impeachment
Dear Representative Herrera Beutler: On Friday, December 13, you released a press statement declaring that you “will vote against both articles of impeachment if they reach the floor.” I am writing to tell you that…
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Not with a bang but a whimper
Watching the Gohmerts and Nuneses seek to turn black into white and up into down, watching Robert Mueller stick fastidiously to his narrow and apparently legalistic conception of his duty when given the opportunity to…
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A letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski (and other wavering senators)
Dear Senator Murkowski: I watched almost every minute of the hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and Friday. I came away persuaded that Brett Kavanaugh is utterly unfit for the Supreme Court. Even…