Election Day?
I’m living out the worst song The Clash ever recorded. Once upon a time, however, there was no confusion.
Queen Me
Yesterday, when the National Football League began their games with a moment of silence for the queen, I laughed out loud.
The Center is the Enemy of the Good
American democracy hangs in the balance while dogmatic centrists complain about extremism on “both sides.”
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American Dreams
The American dream blossomed into a fruit that we were told not to pick. Let them do it for you.
Postcards from America
A triangle across America, 5,000 miles in 22 nights.
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The Impossibility of History
If the past is prolog, then our introduction to the present is mostly the vast silence of what we do not and cannot ever know.
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The King Of Pop, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and Modern Propaganda
How crazy make believe undermines democracy by eroding our faith in government.
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Black Lives Matter? #BlackFriendsMatter
More than half-a-century after Jim Crow ended, America is by many measurements as segregated as it has ever been.
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Why Today’s Republicans Hate the New York Times So Very Very Much
Politically and economically, the New York Times is basically the same paper I remembered, more or less occupying the same political space it had at least since the 1980s. But one element has noticeably changed: its elitism.
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What Will We Make Of A Stolen Election?
The U.S. has a long history of electoral corruption. But the last half-century has seen mostly clean elections. Are we about to return to the bad old days?
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