My purpose: to claim all possibilities for radicalizing Kamala Harris’s campaign to demand a ceasefire and not one more bomb, while making sure that Trump does not win. And to recognize how unique it is to see this band of warriors organizing around Harris as her...
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Guilty of Sexual Abuse (But Not Rape?)
On Contemptuous Men and the Women who Fight Back A short note about the subtitle before I begin: it is interesting how these gender terms hold sometimes in all their simplicity and binary force. Other than the title, when I use the term woman/en it is inclusive of...
Media Lingers on Biden Documents Story, ‘Both-Sidesing’ with Trump
Last week, the discovery of classified documents at Joe Biden’s former office and later his home sparked a flurry of news coverage, including comparisons to Donald Trump’s ongoing classified-records scandal. Critics called out false equivalency in mainstream media’s...
Media Weigh Democracy Against Ratings on Jan. 6 Hearings
On January 6, 2020, a mob of supporters to then-President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol during the certification of Joe Biden’s presidency. Violence ensued throughout the Capitol and the following months saw a continuous effort from Donald Trump and his...
Jan. 6 Insurrection: The Shape of Democracy One Year Later
On January 6, 2021, loyalists to then-President Donald Trump unleashed a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol building. The riot interrupted the certification of the 2020 election after Trump gave a speech doubling down on his “big lie” that the outcome of voting was...
Georgia’s Republican Primary a Referendum on Election Lies
Ahead of Georgia’s 2022 Republican primary for governor, Donald Trump has levied his support for David Perdue, a proponent of the former president's election integrity lies, over Governor Brian Kemp. Trump favored Kemp in 2018, but has developed a tarnished opinion...
‘Midnight Is Still With Us’: Senator Adam Schiff discusses the Threats still posed to American Democracy after Trump
On November 10, the Brennan Center for Justice conducted an interview with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and lead manager in first impeachment trial of Donald Trump to discuss the Constitution, Congress, and the disastrous...
Media Spreads Big Lies as Jan. 6 Committee Attempts to Hold Insurrectionists Accountable
On January 6, 2021, a mob of loyalists to former president Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol building after he delivered an incendiary speech that falsely claimed the 2020 election, and its ongoing certification in the Capitol, was fraudulent. After Senate...
Election 2020: Why Trump Lost But Trumpism Didn’t
By Raza Rumi The November election in the United States took place under most extraordinary circumstances. A deadly pandemic, historic levels of unemployment, massive protests against racism and deep polarization defined the context within which the electoral battle...