Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Inauguration day: Letter to a Trump voter

Here’s one thing we can already agree on: With this inauguration, our nation and our world are about to change forever.

The Inauguration of white supremacy

Trump sees Muslim-Americans as Latinos on steroids and so even more threatening to his project of racial hierarchy.

The long ordeal of whistleblower Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning is expected to be released on May 17.

Four takeaways from Trump’s latest tweet tantrum

All told, Trump’s tweet tantrum reveals a great deal about the man who’s soon to be president of the United States. None of it inspires confidence.

Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to commuting Manning’s sentence

Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.

We can beat back the reign of Trump

It's up to us to stop playing along.

If we’re honest, we all know Trump’s America

Trump articulates ideas that are closer to what is considered “normal” in the United States than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

Republican part-time nation: Going involuntary

Providing security to the nation’s workers is obviously not the Trump-Ryan agenda.

Booker and the big pharma dems have no excuse. This vote proves it.

Democrats will have to move fast to undo the damage these senators have done.

‘Tis the nightmare before chaos

When rational essays struggle to capture all the madness, what other choice for writers but satiric sadness?