President Donald Trump appointed a new postmaster general for the U.S. Postal Service in May, and this summer his pick has come under criticism on social media. “New (Republican) businessman Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has $70m invested in companies that compete w/the Postal Service,” Facebook user Florence Vincent wrote in a post on July 27. She told…
The idea that our American democracy is at a dangerous fork in the road is not new, but no one is more keenly aware of the dangers we confront than Yale Professor of History Timothy Snyder, author most recently of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” See a brief summary of his…
The GOP won’t deal on a new stimulus because they already got their corporate bailout in March. They may be writing off 2020 as hopeless, and a nice Depression now, with massive starvation and unrest, may be just what’s needed to sabotage the coming Democratic administration, preparing the way for a resurgent GOP in…
Who farted? Trump or Putin?
By Will Bunch The videos are now showing up in your social media feed every hour or two, each one more over-the-top than the one before — viral missives from a world that seems to have gone mad, and yet somehow exists right in our backyard. These “forgotten Americans” are at the lectern at…