The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows - The Atlantic
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
Historian reveals how Hitler 'dismantled' democracy in less than two months
After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.In a Wednesday essay for the Atlantic, historian Timothy W. Ryback, who is the director of the Insti...
America's dark past and the key to stopping Trump's authoritarian rule | Opinion
It’s probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest holiday season for our nation in my lifetime. So how about a quick story out of America’s earliest history that somewhat echoes this moment and may give us some hope?Donald Trump has told us he’s going to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to declar...
This is how oligarchy destroys democracy - Alternet.org
Today we don’t know if the United States government will shut down tomorrow because, first, Elon Musk followed by his co-president Donald Trump, persuaded House Republicans to vote against a compromise bill, and then, last night, Republicans couldn’t summon enough votes for a stripped-down continuin...
This has not been the holiday season that so many of us had planned.Just two months ago, the good and righteous among us fervently hoped that America’s worst days would finally be put behind her, and a period of endless possibility would begin.Glass ceilings would be broken, and maybe for the time e...
Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure.
Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration - CounterPunch.org
A quiet panic has broken out within immigrant communities across the United States ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. Mixed-status families are expecting to be separated, DACA recipients foresee their status being revoked, those with Temporary Protected Status are pessimistic about the program remaining valid, and asylum seekers fear the worst. Indeed, if Project 2025’s anti-immigrant agenda is fully enacted, the horrors of family separation that the nation witnessed in 2018 under Trump’s first term will pale in comparison to what’s coming.
'Extraordinary situation': How Musk could personally reap billions from 'efficiency' panel - Alternet.org
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — the world's richest man with more than $320 billion in net worth — is openly planning an effort to gut federal budgets for virtually every agency. But he also stands to personally profit to the tune of potentially billions of dollars if some of those proposed cuts co...