By Martha Ackelsberg Martha Ackelsberg, Smith College I’ve been thinking a lot, recently, about the tension between demanding “individual rights” – in the sense of deciding whether or not to wear a mask – and calling for more action on the part of our government to protect us from the coronavirus pandemic. I’m a…
By John Feffer Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Imagine for a moment that Hillary Clinton had won the presidential election in 2016. Imagine, in other words, that the “blue wall” of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania had held firm four years ago. Claiming election fraud, Donald Trump would have insisted on a recount and Election Day…
By Tom Engelhardt In 2016 as now, he was the candidate of chaos. Yes, he was a billionaire (or wanna-be billionaire or in-hock billionaire, not to mention a liar, a cheat, and a scoundrel), but from the beginning he appealed to the forces of order in America that were also, as it happened, the forces of chaos. Donald Trump entered…
By Don Pelton I was so impressed by this Brian Williams interview yesterday of COVID-19 survivor Diana Berrent that I captured this short segment of it from my screen, so that I could share it here. Berrent, in her mid-forties, contracted a mild case of COVID-19 back in February, and convalesced at home with…
By Don Pelton I started listening to this latest video from the Lincoln Project (a group of long-time GOP consultants), which has been issuing a steady stream of blistering ads against Trump and his GOP enablers, but — not being very young — I was put off by the musical style and was about…