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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 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 […]
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 […]
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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