Category archives: Politics

Trump is an information nihilist with nothing to lose

It’s not too late … is it?

Our political anxieties didn’t go away in November. So … what do we do about it?

Welcome back to “The Stakes,” a rundown of the week’s news — without the talking heads. This week is all about action, so let’s get into it. Coming up on the show today: Part 1: Writer Marcus Ellsworth talks with Ash-Lee Henderson, co-director of Tennessee’s Highlander Research and Education Center — otherwise known as the… Read more »

We’ve got a perfect storm of protests happening across the country for Inauguration Day: an MLK Day civil rights action forum in Providence, Rhode Island, and a benefit for Equality NC in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The allegations implicating the Russian government in a hacking scandal that rocked the presidential election this summer are serious, and continue to grow more concerning (and weird). The FBI, the CIA, and the National Security Agency (NSA) have all reported that Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign of disinformation and hacks into both the… Read more »

Our subconscious history is right in front of us, and it’s disappearing all the time

Politics is about power. When we lose sight of that, we lose.

We have a way of shutting that down

The war on women is being fought under false pretenses.