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How One Era of Big Lies Gave Way to the Next May 13, 2021 Member-only Save It’s now a done deal. The GOP is Trump’s. With theouster of Liz Cheneyfrom the GOP leadership — formally — the cycle is now complete. The GOP is a party, a movement, an ideology that belongs to Trump — … Read more

Why Living in a Failed State is So Scary I have a friend who moved from America to Europe for graduate school. And there she settled, in a European metropolis. She found a a good job, worked her way up, started a family. Things were good, and she was happy. One day, she got a … Read more

If This Post Makes You Angry, It Should. Apr 30, 2021 Member-only Save By now, you might have heard about the catastrophe Covid’s becoming in India. Or maybe you haven’t. Then there’s Peru. South Africa. Mexico. Argentina. Indonesia. Covid is now at the stage — if it wasn’t already — of becoming a colossal, terrible … Read more

What Happens to a Society Who Can’t Punish Those Who Want to Undo It? Mar 30, 2021 Member-only Save Connect the following dots. Tucker Carlson recently agreed with a guest — a famous Republican — that they’d have to “elect a fascist” soon, or else. Stephen Miller, the architect behind “separating families” and putting kids … Read more

The American Right is Hardening Into a Full-Blown Nazi Party Feb 27, 2021 Member-only Save Let me try to make sense of what’s happening to the right wing in America. It’s as simple as it is chilling. American fascism is now becoming American Nazism. Yes, really. There is a big difference between the two. Fascism … Read more

The Young Generation of Democrats Did Such a Stellar Job of Prosecuting Trump, They Should Be Given the Reins of Power Immediately Feb 12, 2021 Member-only Save I have a confession to make. I was deeply, deeply impressed by the Democrats managing Trump’s second impeachment. Their case for the prosecution wasn’t just stunning. This was … Read more

The Day the Fascist Snowflakes Came to Cancel a Black Lady and a Brown Dude Feb 4, 2021 Member-only Save It began, strangely enough, a noted leftist journalist, who once used to be widely admired. He singled out two minorities — Imani Gandy, a well-known Twitter personality, and, well me. Imani made a joke: “Petition … Read more

2020 Was the Year We Found Out That Our Societies are Largely Made of Remorseless, Malicious Idiots Dec 27, 2020 Member-only Save When you think of 2020 in the rear-view mirror, you probably — after thanking your lucky stars this surreal dumpster fire of a year is coming to a close — think first of … Read more

What Americans Don’t Understand About Freedom — That Europeans and Canadians Do Nov 24, 2020 Member-only Save By now, you might have heard North Dakotais the world’s worst Covid hotspot. The world’s worst, with South Dakota not far behind. Things aren’t just desperate there — they’re bizarre, at least to the rest of the world. … Read more

America Faces a Catastrophic Covid Winter That Didn’t Need to Happen It is going to be a long, bleak Covid winter in America. The numbers are mind-boggling. Caseshave doubled again in less than a month— and it’s now reached the jaw-dropping figure of more than 180,000 cases.Per day. To put that in perspective, more than … Read more