All posts by Baynard Woods
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Law Enforcement, Antifa and the Alt-RightA recent episode of the seemingly-eternal crime drama Law & Order: SVU featured an Ann Coulter like figure — she had a name in the show but let’s call her Ann Fauxlter — who was raped with...
- Posted March 1, 2018
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Drug Checking as Self-Help Harm Reduction: With doofus drug czar and vindictive DOJ, citizens left to address opioid overdose crisis on their ownIn October, Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, claiming that more than 64,000 Americans had died from opioid overdoses the previous year. Fentanyl is responsible for a large part of that number....
- Posted January 31, 2018
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Democracy in Crisis: Prosecutors Push on Against 59 Protesters Despite DefeatThe U.S. Attorney’s Office dropped charges continues to prosecute journalists, others who have spoken to the press On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. dropped charges against 129 of the 188 people facing rioting charges during protests...
- Posted January 24, 2018
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Fire and Fire and Fury: Steve Bannon and what a bad week really looks likeI went to bed on Saturday night reading Fire and the Fury, which, if I need to explain it at this point, is Michael Wolff’s ribald and riveting account of the early days of the Trump regime....
- Posted January 17, 2018
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The State of Protest in 2018: A Case StudyDonald Trump’s second year in office begins like every new Star Wars movie: with the Resistance in tatters, trying to rebuild. There is plenty of internet #Resistance, ranging from insane conspiracy theories to serious commentary and organizing—but...
- Posted January 10, 2018
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How Screwed Are We in 2018: Things aren’t looking good for the new yearAt the beginning of 2017, we were in purgatory. Remember the interregnum, after we elected Trump but before he took office? We knew it would be bad, but we also had no idea how bad or what...
- Posted January 4, 2018
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Democracy in Crisis: America’s Most Reactionary President Visits Its Most Radical CityNoted racist and president Donald Trump had the audacity to attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson last Saturday. “I knew a little before everybody else, but I’ll simply say this without even...
- Posted December 13, 2017
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Dude columnist struggles with what it means to be a man, female editor has doubtsMary Finn, an editor with Democracy in Crisis, often makes extensive notes on my columns—in this case, we decided they were far more interesting than the column itself. So we left them, in dialogue with a half-formed...
- Posted November 29, 2017
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Conspiracy Theories: The government’s case sets low-bar for conspiracy charges on eve of this week’s J20 trialA year ago, after the election of Donald Trump, Dylan Petrohilos hung an Antifa flag out in front of his house. “I had flying outside my home because Trump was elected and there was...
- Posted November 15, 2017
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Snoozing through Fascism: A slow-motion academic protest of fascism emerges after conferenceThe great Russian-American writer Masha Gessen was standing on the stage at Bard College in New York in front of a sign that read “Crises of Democracy.” It was the name of an Oct. 12-14 conference sponsored...
- Posted November 3, 2017