Third would-be Trump assassin disrupts White House Correspondents’ Dinner
By James J. Devine A man intent on doing serious damage to American democracy was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where a California teacher may have gone to shoot him. It was supposed to be the night President Donald Trump finally showed up, after years of calling the dinner a swampy bore and the…
The quiet machinery of compulsion
By James J. Devine Nobody asked you. That is, perhaps, the point. Somewhere in the unremarkable language of federal rulemaking — buried beneath the bureaucratic sediment of efficiency studies and data-sharing protocols — the United States government is constructing the architecture of a new military draft. Not with trumpets. Not with a congressional address. With…
From Jew-hater to Jihad-baiter, Sue Altman’s journey to Congress runs on bigotry
There is a particular kind of American politician who treats prejudice the way a snake treats its skin — something to be shed and replaced as the season demands — but a candidate in Central New Jersey seems to be angling for President Donald Trump’s support, with Islamophobic and antisemitic remarks. Lifelong Republican Sue Altman,…
Only 1,000 more days of Trump’s dangerous and barbaric bullshit
By James J Devine Let us pause for a single, sober fact: as of this morning, we have roughly one thousand days left. That is not a promise of relief. That is a countdown on a bomb that is already ticking somewhere inside the walls, and nobody in charge seems particularly interested in finding it.…
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