Donald Trump

Trump Tower Protestors

It’s Not Hysterical to Recognize the Threat Trump Poses It’s Not Hysterical to Recognize the Threat Trump Poses

Democracy, such as it is, really is in danger.

Aug 17, 2017 / Katha Pollitt

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Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow

Today’s conflicts over American slavery and Stalin’s Great Terror reveal similar controversies as well as an unknown Putin.

Aug 17, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen

White Surpemacists Charlottesville

White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner

Plus Bob Dreyfuss on Paul Manafort, and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and golf.

Aug 17, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Confederate flag Charlottesville

Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump

The historian and author explains how racism is part of the Trump family DNA.

Aug 16, 2017 / Jon Wiener

Protesters in Massachusetts

Fire the White Supremacists, Topple the Confederate Statues, Crack Down on the Violent Fascists Fire the White Supremacists, Topple the Confederate Statues, Crack Down on the Violent Fascists

This is about more than Trump—this is about what America must do. Now.

Aug 16, 2017 / John Nichols

Trump at Trump Tower

Trump’s Message to the Country: #NotAllNazis Trump’s Message to the Country: #NotAllNazis

The press conference of August 15th will live in infamy.

Aug 15, 2017 / Dave Zirin

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In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again

But progressives, leftists, and people of conscience were determined not to let the hate warriors get their way.

Aug 15, 2017 / Jordan Green

Heather Heyer Protest

Can Jeff Sessions Provide Justice for Heather Heyer? Can Jeff Sessions Provide Justice for Heather Heyer?

Sessions’s perverted sense of justice continues to undermine civil rights, not protect them.

Aug 15, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon

Threat Level: Bright Orange Threat Level: Bright Orange

Forget North Korea and the KKK, it's the scary, scary immigrants that will bring us down.

Aug 15, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow

Trump on Air Force One

Frank Rich: Wallowing in Watergate Frank Rich: Wallowing in Watergate

Will the Trump presidency end like Nixon’s?

Aug 15, 2017 / Jon Wiener

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