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This is the final Democracy in Crisis column that I will be writing. I remember the urgency with which it started. I was super stoned in a Denver hotel room just days after Trump was elected. Editors at various alt-weeklies had been wringing their hands about how to deal with Trump. Many of these papers […]
I went to bed one recent night reading “Fire and the Fury,” Michael Wolff’s ribald and riveting account of the early days of the Trump regime. It quickly became clear in the book that no one involved in Trump’s campaign expected, or wanted, him to win. That was a horrible thought: Trump and his motley crew […]
I got drunk last weekend and read all 2,735 tweets Donald Trump has written since the election, in the hopes that the feed, collected and searchable on trumptwitterarchive.com, might be a good way to get a sense of the horrors we’ve endured. It was like reliving all of the unbelievable moments of this last year in […]
Mary Finn, an editor with Democracy in Crisis, often makes extensive notes on my columns—in this case, we decided they were far more interesting than the column itself. So we left them, in dialogue with a half-formed column. I have been trying to figure out a way, as a white man, to write about the […]
I n his tax speech in Pennsylvania this month, President Trump gave a shout out to “The great Jeffrey Lord.”He went on to explain that Lord “was on fake news CNN for a long time. He was one of my few sources of truth.” CNN severed ties with Lord after he tweeted “sieg heil,” a […]
The political heat of 2017 has finally boiled all the political chants down to their essence: “Fuck that shit!” More than a thousand juggalos—fans of the horror-art rap group the Insane Clown Posse—chanted this perfect refrain for our insane era in front of the Lincoln Memorial Sept. 16. Many of them were wearing clown paint […]
O ne night last week, I suddenly started pouring sweat, heart pounding, as I fell off my couch. It was the beginning of a high-fever, five-day stomach flu. To paraphrase Joan Didion, it was not an unreasonable response to the summer of 2017. I’ve been thinking about Didion a lot, especially “Slouching Toward Bethlehem,” her […]
1. The White House briefing room feels like a mansion’s pool house, but with the carpet of a church basement. On the eve of the summer solstice, after a week without an on-camera press briefing, the room smells like a grill doused with too much lighter fluid. Cameramen and techies move around in loose clothes […]
I FBI Director James Comey was speaking to federal agents when news of his firing flashed across the television behind him. The regime blamed new Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and cited Comey’s treatment of the Clinton email investigation—as if daring us to pretend they are telling the truth. II More than 200 people arrested […]
It is snowing in Washington—strange in early March after an insanely warm winter, but nothing compared to the cold many activists and tribal members endured in North Dakota while fighting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Kristen Tuske of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation stands with other women in front of the White House, […]
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