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There’s No Defending Founding Fathers Who Practiced Slavery
Sometimes the Poor Make It Big. Usually They Stay Poor.
White Folks Need to Stop Assuming We Know Everything About Race
Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio Is Deeply Disturbing
(OtherWords) – During a speech to a group of police officers in July, President Trump returned to one of his favorite themes of the campaign season: violence. “Please don’t be too nice” to the “thugs being thrown into the back of a…
Trump’s Running Out of Friends, and It’s His Own Fault
(OtherWords) – I hate to say this, but I’m starting to feel sorry for Donald Trump. He’s only been in office for half a year, and already he’s running out of Americans to attack. Of course, he came into office already…
It’s Not About ‘White Culture’
(OtherWords) – “I came to this march for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture,” a white nationalist protester in Charlottesville told Newsweek. But, he claimed, he’s “not an angry racist.” White…
Racists Look Emboldened. They’re Actually Terrified.
(OtherWords) – The act of terrorism that killed one person and injured others in Charlottesville, Virginia was horrific. There will be more days like these. Angry, cowardly, fear-mongering white supremacists have been emboldened by a president they see as the last…
Trump’s Worst Collusion Isn’t With Russia — It’s With Corporations
(OtherWords) – I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. The latest news about Donald Trump, Jr., however, is tantalizingly close. The short version of the story, revealed by emails the New York…
A Bipartisan Vote to Put the Brakes on War
(OW) – One of the few things I recall fondly about the Trump campaign — a short list, I’ll admit — was the candidate’s apparent glee in ridiculing the war-mongering of his rivals and predecessors. In early 2016, Trump (correctly) summed…
Making NAFTA Worse
United States (OW) – Trump promised to negotiate the widely loathed trade deal, which would be great — except he’s giving corporations even more power to offshore jobs. Like rose blossoms, a politician’s promises can be beautiful when they burst into…
American Justice Now Feels Laughable
(OtherWords) – Heard any good jokes lately? Desiree Fairooz did. But laughing at it got her thrown in jail. That’s right: Fairooz was just convicted for laughing during the confirmation hearing of now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in January 2017. She’d attended…
Wanted: 1.5 Billion Immigrants
(OtherWords) – During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously promised to deport every person living in this country without proper papers. I have another idea: The 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. should be granted citizenship immediately in a mass…
The Coming Crisis for the World’s Farmers
World (OW) – Any farmer can tell you it’s hard work. Now imagine climate change — and no safety net. Remember the climate crisis? It’s still happening. Having a government that resembles a circus, it turns out, hasn’t stopped the clock…
Walling Them Out, or Walling Us In?
Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, three Guatemalans waited till dusk to slip illicitly into our country.
This is the stuff of Donald Trump nightmares — and if he were to witness such a scene, we can only imagine the furious rants that would follow.
But Trump will never see this scene or even know about it, because he’s facing south, fulminating against Mexicans and assuring his faithful followers that he’ll stop illegal entry into the U.S. by building a “beautiful, impenetrable wall” across our 2,000-mile border with Mexico.