You know, it really isn’t this complicated. There is no compelling interest and no public value in naming the suspected extremist who assaulted Austin, Texas with bombs over the past few weeks before blowing himself to smithereens on Wednesday. No rational person gives a damn what his name is. So why make him famous? Almost […]
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March Madness: Right-Wing Media Will Take Aim at Youth Opposed to Gun Violence
They can’t help themselves. If you’ve ever doubted the fundamental foolishness and ghoulishness of the American right, just watch—if you can bear it—the right’s reaction to today’s March for Our Lives. If you think the rhetorical assaults on anti-gun-violence American youth in the days leading up to this march were bad, as Bachman-Turner Overdrive famously […]
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Generation Z Must Take the Media Back
It’s the only way to keep this moment–and this momentum–going. When the nationwide youth demonstrations against gun violence in the wake of the February 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida, began, I must admit that I actually had a cynical reaction: how many of these teenagers, I wondered, would abandon their social conscience twenty-five years from […]
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Trump’s Pattern of Flip-Flopping on Issues
Here’s why you can’t trust what he says from one day to the next.
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“MAGA Maggots” and My Fifteen Minutes
Trump fans seem to be concerned that the shooter’s right-wing political commitments might become part of the discussion, so they attack the survivors.
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Don’t Give Up On Gun Control or America
It’s easy to grow hopeless about our ability to stop the gun violence in our country, but we can’t afford to become apathetic.
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Democrats Can’t Win Back Rural Voters Who Watch Fox News
The right wing media is exploiting misleading stereotypes of Democrats.
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How the GOP Is Quietly Sabotaging Gun Regulations
ATF, the government agency tasked with regulating firearms, could help put a dent in our gun violence epidemic. But Republicans have rendered it ineffective.
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The Greatness We Had Then, The Madness We Have Now
I still remember how nervous I was. I spent the entire day anxious about something possibly going wrong in Ohio due to voter suppression. I was convinced that it would be over after one term, that the old GOP gang would get back together again, that the progress of the previous four years–especially on climate […]
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Republicans, Armed with Thoughts and Prayers After Texas
Nothing changed after Newtown. Nothing changed after Orlando. Nothing changed after Las Vegas. Sadly, nothing will change after this: A gunman wearing all black and a ballistic vest opened fire with a rifle outside a small Baptist church in rural Texas and continued firing inside the building on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and […]
