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The Business PACs Are Back in Business

Surprise! One-party rule might be profitable

June 8, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ Roll Call reported political action committees (PACs) have restarted making contributions to members of the United States Congress. This includes the 147 Republicans who voted against certifying Electoral College votes after the militant storming of the United States Capitol. Cash to both parties mostly stopped in the weeks after the ...

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Why Maya Wiley Could Be New York City’s First Woman Mayor

Now the top progressive in a Democratic mayoral primary that no one can poll, her error-free campaign and progressive chops could push this first-time candidate over the line

June 7, 2021 • by Claire Potter

_____ It’s a move that may provide an important last-minute jolt of energy for undecided progressives: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY-14) has endorsed activist and civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley for Mayor of New York City. And it isn’t just an Instagram moment: it is a recognition of what Wiley has already ...

Why Maya Wiley Could Be New York City’s First Woman Mayor

Columnists

We Don’t Need a Commission to Study January 6

We need a functioning government. National commissions rarely solve the problems they are formed to address–and often, they create new ones

June 2, 2021 • by Claire Potter

On Friday, May 9, the Senate failed to pass a bill establishing a bipartisan federal commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol, an insurrection intended to block Joe Biden from being inaugurated as president. The cloture vote was 54-35, six votes shy of the number needed to bring the ...

We Don’t Need a Commission to Study January 6

Columnists

No, It’s not Shocking that QAnon Believers Long for a Military coup. For Them, This Is the End Times

There are millions of Americans for whom hate is their faith

June 2, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ Donie O’Sullivan is a reporter for CNN. His beat appears to be American conspiracy theories. He was on Anderson Cooper’s show last night with reporting on a QAnon conference last weekend during which former Donald Trump adviser and pardoned traitor Michael Flynn said a Myanmar-style military coup “should happen” in ...

No, It’s not Shocking that QAnon Believers Long for a Military coup. For Them, This Is the End Times

Gender

Murder, Marines, and the Mojave

On the 20th anniversary of its publication, author Deanne Stillman contemplates the repercussions of her much-discussed book, “Twentynine Palms”

June 2, 2021 • by Bliss Bowen and Deanne Stillman

_____ If you live in Southern California, odds are better than even that you’ve heard about Twentynine Palms. Deanne Stillman’s 2001 book examines the barbaric rape and murder of 15-year-old Mandi Scott and 20-year-old Rosalie Ortega in August 1991 by a Gulf War veteran. The murderer was stationed at the nearby ...

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Democrat-in-Chief

Why the ‘Battle for the Soul of the Nation’ is a fight for democracy Itself

June 1, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ On Memorial Day, President Joe Biden spoke at Arlington National Cemetery to remember those who gave the “last full measure of devotion” to the United States, dying in our service. His speech was a full-throated defense of the cause for which those soldiers gave their lives: democracy. “Democracy is more than ...

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Justice Moves Slowly–But It Moves

Will George Floyd’s murder lead to police reform–and can Donald Trump stay out of jail?

May 26, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ A year ago this week, 46-year-old George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis as then–police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. While bystanders begged Chauvin to get up, a teenage girl walking by had the presence of mind to video what was happening. Thanks ...

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What Campus Police Really Do

Private university security forces do mostly deliver social services—and it’s a problem

May 26, 2021 • by Claire Potter

_____ This week marks a year since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. In the twelve months since a renewed Black Lives Matter movement brought lethal racism back to the forefront of white America’s consciousness, many of us who are white have learned to see policing, at its most ...

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Let’s Call the Republican Party by its Proper Name—Fascist

A word that gets the side eye from main stream commentators should be part of the conversation

May 25, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ Journalist John Harwood had a piece in CNN Sunday reflecting on an essay published in 2012 that accurately predicted the coming of today’s GOP. “Let’s just say it: the Republicans are the problem” was written by Thomas Mann, who was at the time with the Brookings Institution, along with Norm ...

Let’s Call the Republican Party by its Proper Name—Fascist

Columnists

The Curious Case of Andrew Yang

Running for New York City mayor turned a fiery corporate handout critic into something else

May 25, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

_____ During the 2020 presidential campaign, it was businessman Andrew Yang who was the most explicitly anti-corporate tax incentive candidate in the field. He literally had a policy page on his website calling to “End Bidding Wars for Corporate Relocation.” His correct reasoning?: “These subsidies amount to money that could otherwise go to ...

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There’s Just One Reason to Oppose a Bipartisan Commission to Investigate the 1/6 Insurgency

Are the House Republicans afraid of what it will find?

May 19, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ Imagine if, after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives said let’s move on. The United States Congress need not investigate. Other agencies are already doing that work. There’s no sense in duplicating efforts. There’s no sense in being counterproductive. Anyway, ...

From the Editors

The Business PACs Are Back in Business

Surprise! One-party rule might be profitable

Why Maya Wiley Could Be New York City’s First Woman Mayor

Now the top progressive in a Democratic mayoral primary that no one can poll, her error-free campaign and progressive chops could push this first-time candidate over the line

We Don’t Need a Commission to Study January 6

We need a functioning government. National commissions rarely solve the problems they are formed to address–and often, they create new ones

No, It’s not Shocking that QAnon Believers Long for a Military coup. For Them, This Is the End Times

There are millions of Americans for whom hate is their faith

Murder, Marines, and the Mojave

On the 20th anniversary of its publication, author Deanne Stillman contemplates the repercussions of her much-discussed book, “Twentynine Palms”

Democrat-in-Chief

Why the ‘Battle for the Soul of the Nation’ is a fight for democracy Itself

Justice Moves Slowly–But It Moves

Will George Floyd’s murder lead to police reform–and can Donald Trump stay out of jail?

What Campus Police Really Do

Private university security forces do mostly deliver social services—and it’s a problem

Let’s Call the Republican Party by its Proper Name—Fascist

A word that gets the side eye from main stream commentators should be part of the conversation

The Curious Case of Andrew Yang

Running for New York City mayor turned a fiery corporate handout critic into something else

There’s Just One Reason to Oppose a Bipartisan Commission to Investigate the 1/6 Insurgency

Are the House Republicans afraid of what it will find?

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Surprise! One-party rule might be profitable

Now the top progressive in a Democratic mayoral primary that no one can poll, her error-free campaign and progressive chops could push this first-time candidate over the line

We need a functioning government. National commissions rarely solve the problems they are formed to address–and often, they create new ones

There are millions of Americans for whom hate is their faith

How a new generation of social media leftists is marketing a counter-culture online to young radicals

On the 20th anniversary of its publication, author Deanne Stillman contemplates the repercussions of her much-discussed book, “Twentynine Palms”

Why the ‘Battle for the Soul of the Nation’ is a fight for democracy Itself

Will George Floyd’s murder lead to police reform–and can Donald Trump stay out of jail?

Private university security forces do mostly deliver social services—and it’s a problem

A word that gets the side eye from main stream commentators should be part of the conversation

Running for New York City mayor turned a fiery corporate handout critic into something else

Are the House Republicans afraid of what it will find?

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