Boiling a Frog: The Death of Democracy by Degrees
On this day eighty years ago, with no possibility of escape, and death in a Nazi concentration...
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Category: Politics
Should we vote for Biden? Yes. Should we be happy about it? No
Throughout the primary, I argued with everyone from my editor here at The Typescript to my best...
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Read This To the End: An Essay on Politics
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate landed in...
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Washington NFL Team’s Name Change is Long Overdue
Earlier this month, the world started to come apart for the Washington NFL franchise and its owner...
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The Unsinkable Donald Trump
This one is going to sink him. This broadside hit below the waterline, and Trump going down!...
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“Aux Barricades!” The White Male Radical’s Melodrama of Commitment
It was sometime between the night of May 28, when the 3rd Precinct station went up in flames in...
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Policing: Something Has to Change
Over the past weeks we have seen unprecedented unrest in the United States, and around the world,...
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This Policeman is not Your Friend
“Always remember,” my first-grade teacher said as she gestured to Constable Vallières, standing to...
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Reflections on Police Violence
“Is this the Revolution?” I asked, half in jest, half in hope. Demonstrators protesting the murder...
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Building a Better Biden
Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the Democratic primary and endorsed Joe Biden, the...
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Focusing the Message: How Bernie Sanders Needs to Talk to Americans
I have spent a lot of time thinking about the Soviet Union and China in the past few weeks. These...
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Bernie Sanders: The Jew Who Came to Dinner
Elizabeth Warren has faced entrenched sexism at every turn in her personal, professional, and...
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Selling Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren is out of the race; and if you haven’t already, you’re going to see a lot of...
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I Feel the Bern… Give Me Some Aloe
For a long time, I have seen Bernie Sanders as a human Grumpy Cat with a deep disdain for...
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Wood on Wednesday: RWNJ in Recovery
I have mentioned in several of my pieces that I grew up in an ultra-conservative far-right church...
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Peter MacKay Calls for Vigilante Justice Against Wet’suwet’en Sympathizer Protests
As the Wet’suwet’en resistance and the solidarity protests and blockades carry on,...
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Social Media is Killing Us
[Image courtesy of https://todaytesting.com, via WikiCommons] Houston, we have a problem. As I got...
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J’Accuse: Brant Rosen’s Testimony at The People’s Removal Trial of Donald Trump
The people met on Saturday, February 1, in Daley Plaza in Chicago to hold Donald Trump to account....
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Speaking Out Both Sides of Their Mouth: Canada and National Self-Determination
Like all countries, Canada has an international agenda and a reputation to maintain. This is,...
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Magical Thinking and the Conservative Mind
Candice Keller and Ron Hood had a moment in the media spotlight last week when they introduced...
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