The Link between Hurricane Katrina and Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
A historian reflects on how the devastating storm paved the way for the evangelical scapegoating of marginalized people today.
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The Galloping Fascism of the Christian Right
In just the month of June 2022 alone, far-right conservatives launched physical, legislative, and cultural attacks on American society in an attempt to forcefully remake it in the image of Christian nationalism.
How the Right Is Winning the Messaging War Against LGBTQ People
Conservative extremists are doing everything in their power to eradicate queer visibility, with their disingenuous cries of "cancel culture" and "wokeism." And they've only just begun.
The Present Is Our History Now
Many of us screamed into the wind about the importance of voting, the cold danger of apathy, the sheer cruelty that would be unleashed, the searing reality that too late is too soon. But we can still reassemble our past and break our present—we have to.
How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism
Citizen militias at the U.S.-Mexico border rely on social media to spread lies about immigrants and validate their belief—and desire—that violent policing equates justice.
Republicans Don’t Care About Your Facts
In their dangerous quest to control the American narrative, the GOP is attempting to criminalize any teaching in the classroom that can potentially hurt their white, Christian, cishet feelings.
Every American Should Fear Losing Our Democracy
Competitive authoritarianism doesn't start with a violent revolution. Instead, it's ushered in by the erosion of rights most Americans take for granted.
Sleepwalking Toward a Post Democracy America
The GOP is demolishing our guardrails and doing all they can to end democracy as we know it—and eventually, they'll succeed. And those of us on the margins stand to lose everything.
The GOP Has a Choice: Democracy or its Base
The US will either end up a multi-racial democracy, or it will become a single party state ruled by a white minority. Unfortunately, Republicans may just determine our fate.
There Can Be No Rewards For Trump’s Enablers
The redemption economy is gearing up for the Trump orbit but we can't let any of them rewrite their villainous histories.