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I haven’t written in a while. Believe me, dear reader, it is not for a lack of trying. Countless mornings have been spent staring at a blank piece of paper trying to make the words come out of me, like trying to squeeze the last bit of toothpaste out

For all the energy I expend on detailing the deleterious effects of the right wing’s political bad faith, I acknowledge – through a clenched jaw and gritted molars – that it is a useful tactic for which there is no easy counter. The vitality of bad faith attacks launched by the

Conservatives are always so close to identifying the source of their suffering, the core of society’s wrenching inequalities that have immiserated everyday working people for so long. They were close during the early days of the COVID pandemic, when it was clear multibillion dollar pharmaceutical companies that had intentionally

A deeply unfortunate byproduct of every election becoming an existential contest between authoritarianism and what remains of democracy is that the left cannot – for now – challenge failed Democratic orthodoxy. This is not an admission of defeat to the forces of the disastrous centrism that has defined the Democratic Party for

Finding a reason to hate Amazon Prime’s “Them” isn’t difficult. It is degradation porn, exploitative of black Americans’ historical traumas, and shocking for the sake of shock value. Critics have called for the show – ostensibly about the horrors of redlining – to be removed from streaming services, to be