8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

You might be, having taken it all in, struggling for words. Here’s what Fox News had to say about Ron DeSantis’s latest policy: Slavery was beneficial to slaves. Like I said, you might be struggling…

By now, America’s approaching what can only really be described as a state of free-fall. Massacres are now regular events. One side of politics is openly authoritarian, and incites them. Social bonds…

It’s been a slow burn. Over the last decade or so, America and the world have witnessed the GOP, the Republican Party…transform. Change. Into a malign force, inimical to democracy and modernity. But…

I barely know how to begin. Let me try to start here. America is becoming the society the fascists want. Where do you even begin? Let me try again. A man was choked to death on the F train in…

Scarcely a day goes by when I don’t — sigh. Nobody’s going to like this essay. I suppose I have to write it anyways, because, well, someone has to. So let me try again. Scarcely a day goes by now…

I just arrived back, after a bumpy flight, From America to Europe. And here, almost immediately, my European friends all asked me, more than a little baffled: “But are the things you’ve been writing…

Yesterday, suddenly, a development that had many had been dreading. A Trump-appointed judge in Texas blocked women’s access to Mifepristone — a major reproductive health drug — across America…

Here’s a funny, dark, absurd juxtaposition that sums up just how much trouble our world is in. Quick, what’s the world’s happiest country? Finland. That research just came out a few days ago. Guess…

You know a country’s in bad, bad shape when its…sportscasters are on strike…because they think the government’s treading in dangerously fascist waters. That country, ironically, shamefully, enough…

Luke. Luke! I am your… it was, in one of those great, absurd, funny ironies of history, New Gingrich who said it was finally going too far. Reacting to the new bill in Florida to…

It’s sometimes said that people like you and me have a “liberal bias.” As the wicked response goes, “so does reality.” It’s not that I have a problem with conservatism — it’s that what conservatism’s…

There’s a question which I keep asking these days. Maybe you do, too. It’s simple enough, and yet it’s surprisingly complicated, strange, and…ugly. Why do they hate us? You know what I mean already…

By now, you might have heard what happened over the weekend. A speaker at CPAC — the big conservative conference — said: “for the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life…

By now, if you’re a sane and thoughtful person, on the side of democracy, you’re probably a little worried. About a fellow called Ron DeSantis. He’s emerged as the GOP frontrunner for President…

It’s been a terrible few weeks for the former President of the United States, the Orange Buffoon. So many hammer blows have hit him, it’s hard to keep track. His “organization” — what is this, a…

We live in strange and perilous times. As if climate change and mass extinction weren’t enough, they’re accompanied by…the return of fascism to the global stage. Wave after wave of it pulses across…

It might not seem like it, but right about now, the world is experiencing tectonic political shifts. And mostly, they’re not good ones. We’re in the midst of what I’ll call a Great Reversal — and it…

By now, you might have heard what happened. A man broke into her house, tied up her husband, proceeded to beat him with a hammer, shouted “Where’s Nancy?!” Luckily, at that point, the police arrived…

You might be surprised, and a little disheartened, as I am, to look around the world in the early 21st century, and see it, well, giving up on freedom. There’s America, where the GOP is actively…

Republicans want to officially classify ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as a mental illness - Symptoms of the faux illness include ‘Trump-induced general hysteria’ where a person struggles to distinguish between ‘legitimate policy and ‘psychic pathology’

Well, reality must be faced now. But many courageous Americans are ready to fight.

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