All posts tagged "baynard woods"
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Fire and Fire and Fury: Steve Bannon and what a bad week really looks like
I 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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How Screwed Are We in 2018: Things aren’t looking good for the new year
At 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 City
Noted 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 doubts
Mary 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 trial
A 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 conference
The 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
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Bridge Over Troubled Water: How the far right acts as a “bridge phenomenon” for white supremacists
In his tax speech in Pennsylvania last week, President Trump gave a shout out to “The great Jeffrey Lord.” He went on to explain that Lord “was on fake news CNN for a long time. He was...
- Posted October 18, 2017
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DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: Where the Hell is Kekistan?
How have Pepe-posting meme warriors responded to real violence of alt-right? In Charlottesville, when it seemed like the Nazis had been driven from town, shortly before the terrorist attack that killed Heather Heyer, a group of antiracist...
- Posted September 27, 2017