Government, politics, media and more. The mess we're in, how we got here, and some ways out, from Jamison Foser.
I grew up in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, reading the Syracuse Post-Standard , Auburn Citizen , and Ithaca Journal . They were small newspapers and most of their coverage understandably focused on local news that interested me less than national affairs, so I was eager
I don’t like writing about Democratic primaries, and I don’t like writing about people I know. But I’m voting for Tom Steyer, and I’m going to tell you why because I know a lot of California voters — including a surprising number
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This is a screenshot-heavy post. It might display better on the web than in your email client. Clicking the headline above should take you there. Mother Jones’ Anna Merlan has an excellent look at the spread of “‘strategic memes against public participation’—images designed
Most Americans disapprove of the Trump regime’s lawless terrorizing of American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, but you wouldn’t know that from reading two recent New York Times articles that center the views of Republicans rather than all Americans and falsely suggest reform proposals
It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies Here’s a new song from Bruce Springsteen, written on Saturday after masked government agents pinned Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him in the back: (Here is
Donald Trump’s ICE killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an American citizen who worked as an ICU nurse, in Minneapolis Saturday morning . The latest ICE killing came less than a week after it grabbed a five-year-old Minnesota boy named Liam Ramos from the driveway of his house and
If you give a gun, a badge, and impunity to the kind of people who want a gun, a badge, and impunity, some of them will do very bad things.              Renee Good is dead because the Trump regime
Today’s deluge of Donald Trump-Jeffrey Epstein revelations reminded me of a January 1994 Washington Post editorial in which the Post called for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate a land deal on which the Clintons had lost money more than a decade earlier “even
I spent the 2000 presidential election working as an opposition researcher at the Democratic National Committee. Shortly before George W. Bush Dick Cheney chose Dick Cheney to be Bush’s running mate co-president, I was asked to start preparing for the possiblity of a Cheney nomination. Rumors were
On Saturday, somewhere in the neighborhood of seven million Americans [1] participated in protests against their authoritarian government that were unprecedented in American history. By mid-day on Sunday, the front page of the New York Times website contained not a single news article about the protests. As the great
This week’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Louisiana v Callais , which the court’s MAGA justices appear poised to use to eviscerate what’s left of the Voting Rights Act , got me thinking about Chief Justice John Roberts’ confirmation hearings in 2005 and about how
When I relaunched this newsletter over the summer, I planned to use it more frequently. I’m still committed to that, [1] though an unexpectedly frantic September got in the way. Thanks for sticking around. I'll have more soon, but for now here are a few recent
Saturday morning, Donald Trump declared "war" on an American city governed by his political opposition. Referring to the executive order he issued last week giving the Department of Defense an expensive new nickname , the “Department of War,” [1] Trump posted on social media: You might think
Donald Trump’s military assault on America’s cities has been denounced by legal and national security experts as an “ authoritarian power grab ” that is “ dangerous for liberty ” and “ an absolute seizing control of our country through our own military used against us
