Tag: American history
‘Put them in trauma’: Inside a key MAGA leader’s plans for...
1776 and 1860: A key Trump adviser likened the country’s moment to those fractious periods in American history.
Is America great enough to learn great lessons from great Trump...
Either we learn from failures (threats, disruptions, chaos, illegality) or we invite being buried by them.
Right-wing mayhem regorges Social Darwinism, poster child for scandalous, authoritarian bunk
History does not repeat, but in this case it emphatically rhymes. With Trumpist war cries for his New Nazism, we cannot avoid the obvious parallels.
Four corrosive ‘bad myths’ batter America until unifying ‘good myths’ regain...
History depicts the battle between “bad myths” that divide, even destroy, vs the “good myths” that speak to the grandeur of the American experiment.
The massive roadblocks standing in the way of American greatness
Can the America of today be considered one of the greatest nations in the world?
The Great Disconnect Part 1…
The majority of Americans at that time, and even now, never dared to question what our government and embedded media shoveled at them.
How ‘historic’ are we?
Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days.
Redacting democracy: Blacking out the record of the grimmest aspects of...
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.
A plutocratic coup
We tend to believe that plots to overthrow the government are totally foreign to our national character. But we do do coups.
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GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...
Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.
You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.
Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?
Women and workers voting in Wisconsin Supreme Court race defeat the richest man in...
This election may signal the beginnings of a backlash against the Trump regime.
67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns
Sanders warns that Elon Musk’s plan to slash Social Security staffing could double disability claim wait times and deaths, as Trump nominee faces Senate vote.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?