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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Trump Treasury nominee Scott Bessent opposes raising $7.25 minimum wage despite millions living in...
Bessent links wage policies to state decisions while critics warn of deepening inequality.
Survivors of deadly LA wildfires demand accountability for Big Oil’s role in fueling climate...
Victims, scientists, and legal experts unite to hold fossil fuel companies criminally responsible.
Democrats have a massive opportunity as a pure opposition party
If they want to win, Democrats should view themselves not as the minority—but as the opposition.
3M knew firefighting foams were toxic for decades, documents reveal
Revelations show 3M misled the public about PFAS chemicals’ dangers, contributing to global contamination.
The Santa Ana by Joan Didion
Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.