#AMERICA

Don Moynihan

donmoyn

It's MLK Day, the day in America when politicians who absolutely would have opposed Martin Luther King Jr. quote him to cast a sheen of legitimacy on their causes. MLK

Jorge E. Cuéllar

infrapolitics

It’s estimated that #HurricaneIota will enter Central America as a Category 5 Hurricane. This is Hurricane Mitch-level stuff. Already battered by Eta, people are hurting. I pray for the well-being

Dr. William Horne

wihorne

We now face a substantial danger in Republicans' refusal to accept the election results w talk of theft & conspiracy. It is imperative that we look to history in this

Dr. Christine Cole Fights Forced Adoption

ForcedAdoption1

Thomas Malthus’s “amusing” views provided the “scientific” and economic philosophical justification for the plunder, famine, genocide, and economic rape that the British East India Company meted out to colonial areas

Joshua Todd James

writerjoshjames

Just read the Bean Dad saga. Ack. As I've said, the ability to create children doesn't automatically mean one knows how to care raise kids. That's a myth in the

Robert Skvarla

RobertSkvarla

The backlash against the new Adam Curtis is weird. I've seen everything from "He's a neocon" to "It doesn't make sense." He's arguing that ruling classes throughout the world have

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

Lots of ordinary Republicans are endorsing violence. We'd like that number to drop, but the precipitating causes deserve our focus even more than trying to persuade that violence is inappropriate.

james crabtree

jamescrabtree

"While the world was distracted by the drama of the U.S. election, Xi quietly unveiled an economic strategy fit for a new Cold War." My first @NoemaMag essay on "dual

Yoni Appelbaum

YAppelbaum

1. This is not the most consequential thing on the nation’s mind this evening. But President Trump’s election eve announcement of a 1776 Commission underlines one of the odder failures

Chad Felix Greene

chadfelixg

White supremacist thinking became nearly extinct as society moved beyond the idea of race and encouraged race neutrality.The reality is white racism, which was a specific and cultural mindset, inspired

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

Hitler-Trump analogy thread/1This is not about genocide. This is not about starting the deadliest war, and widest-ranging the planet has seen, World War 2. Hitler did that WHEN he was

Catherynne M. Valente

catvalente

So many people spent so long excusing conservative votes by claiming to be “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” (as if that’s a thing that makes sense) that half this country cannot

Gennette Cordova

GNCordova

It’s that time of year again when I remind people that donating even $5 to food banks and pantries is better than saddling them with all your unwanted canned foods.

Dividend Growth Investor

DividendGrowth

Predictable companies are long-term hitsPredictability is at the heart of successful investingThere are many high-quality companies that you count on to grow at relatively predictable levels for several decades1/ Their

Dylan P. White

dylanpwhite

DID YOU KNOW? 1952 marked the 1st US presidential election since NATO's founding. The winner? Dwight D. Eisenhower — @NATO's 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe."Freedom's greatest requirement is unity —

A Semi-Colon Hate Account

KingstonJancro

I think Jamaicans mistake our hypervisibility for cultural superiority. Hypervisibility does not mean extremely visible. It does not mean famous. It does not mean renown. Hypervisibility is about a distortion

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