Lunatic fringe In the twilight’s last gleaming This is open season But you won’t get too far Because you gotta blame someone For your own confusion We’re on guard this time Against your final solution –Red Rider, “Lunatic Fringe,” 1981 If they think we’re going to let Heather Heyer’s death be in vain, they’re out […]
D.R. Tucker
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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After Charlottesville, A Time for Choosing
C’mon everybody This is your life I’m talking about a revolution We gotta organize We don’t need no segregation We don’t need no race New age revelation? I think we got a case –Prince, “Sexuality,” 1981 You know who you are. Not the white nationalists, the all-wrong “alt-right,” the folks who want to make America […]
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Republican Who Wishes to Unseat Warren Declares: I’m Not A Wingnut! Honest!
Oh, what a tangled web Trumpists weave when first they practice to deceive… Apparently, it has dawned upon the far-right Elizabeth-Warren-sucks crowd that taking Breitbart to heart won’t be enough to unseat the Massachusetts Senator in 2018. To that end, her expected Republican opponent, Trump disciple Geoff Diehl, is now trying another time-honored Republican tradition: […]
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Get Out: Time for Republicans Horrified by Charlottesville to Leave the GOP
I’m far more concerned about the bloodshed on the streets of Charlottesville than I am about the crocodile tears of “anti-Trump Republicans” like Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter. You have to listen to his comments in full on MSNBC’s AM Joy yesterday to appreciate just how blind to recent GOP history he seems […]
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The GOP Bears Full Responsibility for the Havoc in Virginia
The madness in Virginia is the natural consequence of decades of GOP normalization of hate and rationalization of racism.
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Of Course Trump Will Suppress New Report on US Climate Impacts
Has he called it “fake news” on Twitter yet? There isn’t a chance in hell that the Trump administration will ever officially release the latest National Climate Assessment Report showing the severe risk carbon pollution poses to the United States. Trump will surely take a page from George W. Bush, who taught Trump all that […]
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Obama’s Lesson for Patrick, Booker, Harris and Cuomo: Running for President Isn’t Worth It
Remember a decade ago, when the right-wingers were complaining about “Rudy McRomney,” i.e., the prospect of the supposedly insufficiently conservative Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney becoming the 2008 GOP nominee? The “Rudy McRomney” stuff didn’t make a lick of sense–Giuliani, McCain or Romney would have had to answer to the GOP’s right-wing base […]
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Will the Sick Puppy Wag the Dog?
Do you doubt for a moment that he’d do it? Do you doubt for a moment that he’d go to that level? Would you trust him not to do it? We bore witness to “Operation Urgent Fury” in 1983, “Operation Just Cause” in 1989, “Operation Desert Storm” in 1991 and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in 2003. […]
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Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again
He should have demanded a recount. A botched strategy by Paramount Pictures effectively sabotaged the nationwide release of the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which finished in 15th place in US theatres this weekend. This was not supposed to happen–and it would not have happened if Paramount had stuck with its […]
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How the Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Gave Us Donald Trump
The decision by the Reagan administration has given us three decades of broadcast news that recklessly reaffirms prejudices.
