Tag: right-wing
Right-wing cop-bashing didn’t start with Trump
In fact, the right wing, and the Republicans who serve as their electoral vehicle, have shown hostility toward federal law enforcement agencies for decades.
The global right wing’s bizarre obsession with pedophilia
Instead of combating real-existing pedophilia, the far right has waded into the deep end to battle Satanism and homosexuality, which they tend to equate.
The existential threat from the non-stop barrage of right-wing sedition
Long term democratic states are, by any known measure, the great exceptions, not the historic rule.
I will not yield my values: Fired AP journalist Emily Wilder...
Less than 48 hours after Stanford College Republicans began to post about me, I was fired.”
After the insurrection, America’s far-right groups get more extreme
The Conversation asked Matthew Valasik, a sociologist at Louisiana State University, and Shannon E. Reid, a criminologist at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte, to explain what right-wing extremist groups in the U.S. are doing.
Murdoch paper gives away the game: Cuomo is on their side
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decade in office has been marked by resisting taxation of the wealthy and an adversarial stance against public sector labor unions.
Lots of F’s for these D’s: Report card shows majority of...
"A disappointing number of Democrats have buried their heads in the sand and helped Trump and Mitch McConnell to pack the courts with judges representing the far-right fringe of the country."
Strongman: Jair Bolsonaro and the unexpected rise of the far right...
It remains to be seen if Fernando Haddad can rally the country to prevent a Bolsonaro presidency.
Endorsing ‘violence and extremism among his base,’ Trump pardons Oregon ranchers...
"This pardon is a win only for those with no respect for life and basic decency."
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.