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Trump strutted into the UN General Assembly, turned it into grotesque theater, and left America exposed as morally bankrupt. From bragging about a Nobel Prize he’ll never get, to enabling Netanyahu’s war crimes, to echoing Putin’s playbook, Trump’s speech showed how far America has fallen — from global leader to global pariah. iPINIONS cuts through… Read more.
On Thursday’s edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University claimed that he reintroduced the concept of the “Big Lie” into public discussion in 2019. But that itself is a big lie. Snyder is arguably the heir apparent to Noam Chomsky as America’s bestselling (academic) author. In fact, his book On… Read more.
Graduate students use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to examine the myriad ways race and the legacy of racism affect a person’s life experiences in America, especially with respect to education, employment, housing, healthcare, and the criminal justice system. But Republican propagandists have reframed it as a liberal plot to impose the guilt of 19th century… Read more.
Many Americans are marking this first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection by making much ado about the 725 arrests the FBI has made. Except this is rather like passengers making much ado about the many buckets of water the crew were bailing from the Titanic … No doubt, given those arrests, Americans should be… Read more.
