by Frank Schaeffer When will the media stop completely overlooking the glaring fact that Christo-Fascists were very much involved on the January 6th invasion/attack on our Capitol? They have long been a dagger poised over…
Opinion by Greg Sargent Read at Washington Post When the administration reopened a warehouse-like facility for migrant children in Texas this week, it caused a huge controversy on all sides. It inspired claims, mostly from the right, that President…
Evangelicalism, an Industry of Hate, is itself based on a Big Lie, and so the core message has to be dressed up anew occasionally for any of it to work, because if you place it…
A Guest Blog By Marlene Winell, Ph.D. On January 20, America’s religiosity was on full display. In fact, the religious parts of the U.S. Inauguration were excessive even by inauguration standards, which always includes an invocation…
By Heather Cox Richardson The following is via Heather Cox Richardson’s *essential* newsletter, Letters from an American. If you don’t already receive this in your inbox everyday, I urge you to subscribe. –Frank The crisis…
By Howie Klein Read at Down With Tyranny Trump never liked Pence and even tried to rescind his decision to invite him onto the ticket in 2016. But Pence was supposed to be Trump’s bridge…
If you’ve followed anything I’ve done, especially over the last five years, you know that I was part of the early “Male-Chauvinist, Religious-White-Right, Family Values” movement in the 70s and 80s, which led us down…
By S.V. Date Read at HuffPost WASHINGTON ― They raised the scaffolding up the side of the Capitol, tore down the flag of the United States and, to cheers from their fellow rioters below, hoisted…
By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Pat Robertson is openly calling for replacing the Constitution with the Bible as the law of the land. In the Constitution, you will not find any reference to the Bible…
Opinion by Editorial Board Read at Washington Post ROCHESTER, N.Y., police became the object of national opprobrium last year after videos surfaced showing the brutal treatment of a Black man who had been suffering from a psychotic episode….
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Dan and Andrew of the Bible Buds Podcast and I had such a great time! We talked about chopping enough wood for a New England Winter, growing…
By Eric Tichenor There is one sentence from the ancient Hebrew Tanakh, within the Torah section (teachings, law), which perfectly illuminates the motivations of the seditionists who have created our current, modern-day political crisis. And…
By Thomas B. Edsall Read at New York Times It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that has come to be known as Christian nationalism. Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L….
by Frank Schaeffer Biden addressed the terror threat directly: a “rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat” is what he called it. But the new president…
By Amy Brittain and David Willman Read at Washington Post Henry “Enrique” Tarrio had already publicized his plans to participate in the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. The 36-year-old Miami resident and national chairman of the Proud…
By Heather Ashby From Brazil to the United States, Hungary to New Zealand, right-wing extremist ideas and groups are posing a grave threat to democratic societies. Within this context, the ongoing support U.S. President Donald…
by Frank Schaeffer Trump slunk off to Florida and Biden took the oath of office under a clear blue sky. Now evangelicals are left to figure out how to move forward in a world that,…
By ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTERand EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Read at DailyMail Franklin Graham, the evangelist preacher and son of Billy Graham, wrote…
by Frank Schaeffer “The Trump people have to know they lost,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an expert on totalitarianism, argues, and “there has to be a consequence to losing a coup.” Otherwise, they will stage…
By Hemant Mehta Read Friendly Atheist at Patheos In case you need a reminder that the evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump and his insurrection are hardly a fringe group of extremists, here’s evangelist Franklin Graham condemning the 10…
By Michelle Boorstein Read at Washington Post As lawmakers prepared to impeach President Trump and Washington readied for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Cliff Dyrud wasn’t focused on man-made acts. He was listening for the words of…
by Frank Schaeffer The Trump years prove one thing: Evangelicals are everywhere and have turned against our democracy- en masse. The first casualty was decency. The second was our idea of manhood. Let that sink…
By Rachel Martin Read at NPR As fallout continues from the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol, Ed Stetzer, head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, has a message for his…
There was a distinctly Christian nationalist presence at the U.S. Capitol riot. Some leaders are trying to publicly reject it — but others are staying silent. By Carol Kuruvilla Read at HuffPost The pulpit of…
By Carter Sherman Read at VICE News “A young woman was just shot in the neck beside me in the Capitol Building,” tweeted one anti-abortion activist known for creating “Baby Lives Matter” murals. When a…
By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham WASHINGTON — Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to kneel in the street and prayed in the name of…
Opinion by Michael Gerson The practical effects of the fascist occupation of the U.S. Capitol building were quickly undone. The symbols it left behind are indelible. A Confederate flag waved in triumph in the halls of a building…
By Frank Schaeffer Why isn’t the media telling the truth? The riot was led by Trump but made possible by thousands of demonstrators who came from White evangelical churches. Churches organized hundreds of groups in cars,…
By Frank Schaeffer America’s problem is not political. It is religious fanaticism Until America addresses our White evangelical delusion problem we will not have a functioning democracy. Evangelical MAGA churches want theocracy and are now…
By Frank Schaeffer Trump is abusing his office. Show him a law and he will break it. If America’s election laws are to be reestablished and respected Trump will have to face the legal consequences…
By Frank Schaeffer Now, I don’t think that very many people who watch this video will like it, and I don’t like it myself, because sometimes when you tell the truth about the situation we…
By Frank Schaeffer The U.S.A has the DEADLIEST day of the pandemic record; 3,903 die and over 125,000 are admitted to hospitals as CDC warns the post-New Year COVID surge will kill another 82,000 Americans…
Written by Roger Sollenberger / Salon Read at AlterNet With less than a month left in his presidency, President Trumpon Tuesday pardoned four Blackwater security contractorswhose convictions for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007had in recent years become a right-wing rallying…
When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…
by Frank Schaeffer It seems to me that NRA/open-carry/gun lobby AND de-fund the police activists are BOTH mistaken. We think of these movements as opposites. They aren’t. They both express individualistic impulses from people who…
Opinion by David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Not to be alarmist, but we should recognize that the United States will be in the danger zone until the formal certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on…
For Trump’s evangelicals resistance to cultural “progressivism” – “the liberal agenda” – “abortion/gay rights” mattered more than experience, credentials, know-how, integrity, honesty, even Christianity itself. Now-since Trump’s election loss-they even have abandoned U.S. democracy as…
Early in my life, because of the family I was born and raised in, I was fairly certain about the kind of life I intended to live, and how I was prepared to measure success….
I was an evangelical insider: Here’s what they’re saying about Trump’s loss. I come from an evangelical leadership family so I track what’s happening. NEW recurring theme: Angry evangelical chat room exchanges are increasing where…
By Ed Pilkington and Sam Levine Read at The Guardian On 1 December Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, stood on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta and let rip on Donald Trump. “Mr…
I escaped the Evangelical World for some place far less crazy: Hollywood. There I made four low-budget movies that you might catch on late-night cable. Then I wrote a novel called Portofino which got some…
By the Editorial Board Read at Washington Post PRESIDENT TRUMP’S lying about the election has become dangerous — and not just in the sense that it damages democratic norms. It also increasingly threatens to spur…
By Steven V. Mazie Read at Washington Post Steven V. Mazie is the Supreme Court correspondent for the Economist and professor of political studies at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan. His most recent book…
Thumbs up as Rudy exits the hospital after receiving rare treatments after weeks of running around trying to steal a free and fair election, wiping his snotty handkerchief all over his hands and face and…
When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…
By Editorial Board Read at Washington Post THE CORONAVIRUS vaccines are coming, which means the coronavirus vaccine disinformation is coming, too. In fact, it is already here. “Will New COVID Vaccine Make You Transhuman?” asks one conspiratorial…
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Am I the only person already tired of Democrats who say the Biden team is “boring”? The only word I’m looking for is GRATITUDE for competent non-criminal, non-con-artist, smart appointments. I suspect in the Trump…
by William Rivers Pitt Read at Truthout.org Unless something truly extraordinary intervenes, we are on the cusp of what could become the bleakest winter in living memory. There are 166 days standing between us and…
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post As partisans and analysts puzzle over the higher-than-expected turnout for President Trump (nearly 6 million fewer votes than for President-elect Joe Biden, but still high), they are poring over groups…
By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post One of the better speeches I helped produce for George W. Bush was never given. On election night 2000 — standing outside in the rain, at an Austin victory…
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post President Trump isn’t really trying to overturn the election. He’s simply running one more scam before he leaves office that would enable him to enrich himself. That’s the…
My family knew the Bush family. Looking back, I can think of nothing that comes close to what Donald Trump is doing to stop President-elect Biden from taking part in Intelligence Briefings to prepare to…
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Adding more justices to the bench might be the only way to stop them. By Adam Serwer For a judge with a brilliant legal mind, Amy Coney Barrett seemed oddly at a loss for words. Does…
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KNOXVILLE, TENN. — The new congregation is gathered in a barn in Lenoir City, Tenn., with a roof that has a 60-foot American flag painted on it. And they are praying for a Trump landslide….
Opinion by Editorial Board Read at Washington Post THE COLLAPSE of the local news industry offers manipulators a mother lode of opportunity: a populace full of questions and a gaping hole where they used to go…
I feel so honored to have been asked by my friends at Art Not War to be a part of this amazing Biden Harris 2020 movement through MoveOn. Please share and amplify this message with…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
The Case Against Donald Trump By The Editorial Board Read at The New York Times Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II. Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…
Opinion by Jim Obergefell and Alphonso David Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, is director of individual giving at Family Equality. Alphonso David is the president of the Human Rights Campaign. Five years ago, every marriage in…
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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner Read at The Guardian Former insiders and religious scholars say scrutiny of Barrett’s connection to People of Praise is entirely legitimate Rebekah Powers was 11 when members of her faith group, the…
Opinion by Gretchen Whitmer Read at Washington Post When I addressed the people of Michigan on Thursday to comment on the unprecedented terrorism, conspiracy and weapons charges against 13 men, some of whom were preparing to kidnap and…
People of Praise, a charismatic religious group, was recently revealed to have scrubbed its website of mentions of Barrett. Why? They are hiding her decades of leadership involvement in this pro- “male leadership” anti-feminist cult…
Details of link to Kevin Ranaghan raise fresh questions about supreme court nominee’s involvement with People of Praise Amy Coney Barrett lived in the home of one of the founders of the People of Praise…
By Emma Brown, Jon Swaine and Michelle Boorstein Read at Washington Post While Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has faced questions about how her Catholic faith might influence her jurisprudence, she has not spoken publicly about her involvement…
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By Emma Brown and Jon Swaine Read at Washington Post Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, publicly grappled decades ago with the tension Catholic judges can face between their…
By Dana Milbank Read at The Washington Post America, this is not a drill. The Reichstag is burning. For five years, my colleagues and I have taken pains to avoid Nazi comparisons. It is usually…
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? Story by Barton Gellman Read at The Atlantic There is a cohort of close…
Trump won’t commit to abide by election result. Evangelical and conservative Roman Catholics still back him anyway. Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics have just proved that conservative Christianity is incompatible with democracy. How do we…
Download an Illustrated PDF of this Article Listen to my 2008 interview, “Pro-Life – And In Favor Of Keeping Abortion Legal,” from Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Abortion Trump was told by evangelical pro-life leaders…
In the 70s and 80s, the Religious Right helped form a new political party in America: The Party of Theocracy. It became the Party of the rule of religion over civic life and the destruction…
Warning: QAnon’s silly lies: “deep state” is satanic, coronavirus is fake, Trump is truth/media is lies -have merged with evangelical ideology into a Trump-worshiping religion. The small QAnon freak-show risks expanding into a 100-million strong…
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Read at Down With Tyranny Down With Tyranny picked up on something from my latest video about Trump’s Narcissistic, Malevolent, Incompetent Jesus in relation to the latest data that Donald Trump is poised to lose…
Trump’s lying about pandemic has had unthinkable consequences. Congratulations Franklin Graham and the entire White “conservative” evangelical pro-Trump leadership: You’ve done the impossible- made the word “Christian” come to symbolize Narcissistic Malevolent Incompetence. How do…
Politico is doing an exclusive report today on new poll-study-11% of Evangelical and Catholic 2016 Trump voters are leaving Trump and going to Biden. Vote Common Good (a group I helped found run by my…
Make no mistake: this is Trump’s America, where protesters are shot by vigilantes as police look on By Richard Wolffe Read at The Guardian Donald Trump took a trip to a place called Biden’s America…
By David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Reconciling Donald Trump’s self-promoting “Art of the Deal” with the military’s reserved code of loyalty and service was always a stretch. In Trump’s early months in the White…
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. By JEFFREY GOLDBERG Read at The Atlantic When President Donald…
Opinion by Paul Waldman Read at Washington Post If you thought Stephen K. Bannon was going to end up in handcuffs, you might have predicted that it wouldn’t be for a small-time con. After all, Bannon…
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By supporting Donald Trump, evangelical leaders are failing us and failing the Gospel. Christian women must step up where our church leaders won’t. By Jerushah Duford Read at USA Today As a proud granddaughter of the…
Only a lopsided show of force would overcome undelivered mail, closed polling sites and Trump’s schemes. By Frank Bruni Read at New York Times When many of us question Hillary Clinton’s performance and strategy in…
Jerry Falwell Jr steps down. Falwell Jr. agreed to resign from Liberty University according to the university’s general counsel, after a series of sordid scandals rocked the school he has led since 2007. Liberty University was…
How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Aside from voting for Joe Biden? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and…
By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker Read at Washington Post Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump seized on the U.S. Postal Service as an emblem of the bloated bureaucracy. “A loser,” he repeatedly labeled one…
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Last year Senator Kamala Harris said that she believed the Justice Department would have no choice but to pursue criminal charges against Trump for the instances of apparent obstruction of justice outlined in the Mueller…
I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now we’re paying the price. By Wendell Potter Read at Washington Post In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about…
Opinion by Richard Blumenthal Read at The Washington Post Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Connecticut. The warning lights are flashing red. America’s elections are under attack. This week, I reviewed classified materials…
“It’s a collaborative fiction built on wild speculation that hardens into reality.” By Charlie Warzel Read at New York Times In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist…
According to latest Pew poll, 82% of white evangelicals STILL say they intend to vote for Trump. At least all other Americans now know who wants to trash America in order to hold onto access…
Read at Down With Tyranny Yesterday, Carlos Lozada reviewed Jean Guerrero’s new book, Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda for the Washington Post, How Stephen Miller Went From Teen Troll To Trump Whisperer. He begins…
Trump got the emotions right. He won in 2016 because he understood that white evangelical and conservative Roman Catholic Republican voters were no longer motivated by any sense of hope; they were motivated by a…
Opinion by Ruth MarcusDeputy editorial page editor Read at Washington Post U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves couldn’t do justice for the plaintiff in his court, who had sued over police abuse. The Supreme Court won’t…
When confronted with the reality of over 160,000 Americans dead from his failure to contain the pandemic, the most this wretch can summon is, “It Is What It Is.” Donald Trump knows that he is…
Schumer seeks documents on appointment of Trump ally by JACOB BOGAGE THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Democrat late Sunday asked the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board to turn over communication with the…
Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit some compare to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan by Ed Pilkington In January 2011, James Tomsheck, then a top internal affairs investigator inside US Customs and Border…
Please watch and share this video with everyone you know. We must get out in front of Donald Trump’s “October Surprise” if we’re going to survive whatever it is he’s willing to do to the…
As mail-in voting numbers are expected to surge, Trump’s new postmaster general is cranking back on overtime and deliveries. By Mary Papenfuss A watchdog organization is calling for an investigation and hearings amid concerns about…
If you’re an officer of the law, dress like one. Leave the soldiering to soldiers. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate…
Hi, my name is Frank Schaeffer. I’m a writer who grew up as the son of an evangelical leader in the 1970s. I was his nepotistic sidekick. We toured the country essentially founding what became…
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Conservative armed groups move into politics as backlash builds against protests, stay-at-home orders By Joshua Partlow Read at Washington Post Before his political awakening this spring, Peter Diaz lived a quiet life near this leafy liberal…
A former leader of the department says Trump is politicizing the agency and putting the nation at risk. By Michael Chertoff Mr. Chertoff served as the secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush. Read…
More than 4 years ago, I made a video called something like, “Let Me Tell You About The Donald.” That video got millions of views, because people wanted to know about this guy who was…
Opinion by Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post In 2018, Bob Woodward recounted then-White House chief of staff John Kelly’s view of President Trump. “He’s gone off the rails,” Kelly said. “We’re in Crazytown.” Two years…
By Marissa J. Lang Read at The Washington Post PORTLAND, Ore. — He came to the protest with a question. He left with two broken bones in a confrontation with federal officers that went viral. Christopher David…
By Masha Gessen Read at The New Yorker On Sunday, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Donald Trump refused to commit to recognizing the outcome of the 2020 election. “I’m not going to just say yes,”…
Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? By Michelle Goldberg Read at New York Times The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the…
The Peaceful Transfer of Power is the Cornerstone of Our Democracy. Without it, there is no United States of America. On July 19, 2020, for the first time in our history, a United States President…
According to the Huffington Post, the CEO of one of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies issued a bleak warning about the prospect of a vaccine for the novel coronavirusby the end of the year, saying lawmakers touting…
I grew up in an evangelical, fundamentalist right-wing family that played a direct part in preparing America for the presidency of Donald Trump. We didn’t know it at the time, but in the 1970’s and…
Opinion by Max Boot Read at Washington Post Why is the United States the only wealthy country where novel coronavirus cases are hitting new highs while elsewhere the virus is being contained? A lot of it has…
Opinion by Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post In a storm of national challenges, perhaps the most urgent one is this: The president inhabits a different country from the rest of us. It is a land…
By Jonathan Greenberg Read at Washington Post People have debated whether Donald Trump is fascist since he announced he was running for president. In 2015, Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate that Trump, in his campaign speeches and Twitter…
It wasn’t because of our culture, it was because of our leadership. By Paul Krugman Read at New York Times When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international…
Opinion by Jennifer Rubin The Post reports: “Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus…
Monticello is shrine enough for a man who wrote that “all men are created equal” and yet never did much to make those words come true. By Lucian K. Truscott IV Read at New York Times…
BY TIMOTHY E. WIRTH AND TOM ROGERS It is increasingly looking as if Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump in November. The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood,…
The grandchildren of Nazis don’t drive cars with swastika bumper stickers or fly it in their yards. Yet in the US all the Confederate symbols still abound. Why? Because America never honestly faced our past…
By David Smith in Washington Read at The Guardian The president has had a difficult period and is trailing his rival by double digits. But he has time to fight back – and fight dirty It…
The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment. By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz Read at New York Times WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military…
Being a moral person who cares about America means removing hundreds of boogaloo accounts for ‘promoting violence’ in coordinated takedown, BEFORE you lose hundreds of millions in ad revenue. You fool no one. San Francisco supervisor…
Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is an evangelical. She is lying for Trump. Therefore McEnany is lying for Russia when she denies Trump’s betrayal of our troops by doing nothing about Putin putting a bounty…
Please watch and share this video and learn how Donald Trump’s Magical Thinking is affecting you, your life, your family, and your country! How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation?…
I began my life in a right-wing evangelical fundamentalist cult, started by my famous evangelical father, Francis Schaeffer. When I say, ‘a cult,’ I mean something outside of the religious mainstream that became a personality…
By Jesselyn Cook and Nick Robins-Early Read at HuffPost Around the time news broke on Monday afternoon that the New York City Police Department would disband plainclothes anti-crime units that had been tied to several…
By Nicholas Kristof Read at New York Times What can we possibly make of the crisis that unfolded in the remote Oregon seaside town of Coquille? Coquille is a sleepy logging community of 3,800 people, almost…
By Editorial Board THE VENOM of American racism is as toxic in major cities as in rural areas, in the North as in the South. African Americans are murdered and brutalized for no good reason; more…
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Read at Washington Post George Floyd’s brutal killing brought home to a large majority of Americans the deadly endurance of institutionalized racism. May the memorial services in his honor bring home another…
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, several states have begun preparations for vote-by-mail options in the 2020 election. (Blair Guild/The Washington Post) By Editorial Board AFTER A shambolic election two years ago — and several examples of…
By Dana Milbank Police in Buffalo shove a 75-year-old man to the ground and blood pours from his ear. Police in Brooklyn knock down a young woman and call her a “bitch” because she asked why she had to leave…
By Rod Dreher Erick Erickson, the RedState founder and conservative talk show host, speaks a difficult truth to fellow conservative Christians. Excerpt: Others will stand with Trump because he is the only candidate who isn’t aligned…
Want real change? Then the left not just the right needs to change its mind. For the left it’s easy to go after pro-cop Republicans but be silent about Democrat Party political leaders and union…
In city after city, officers are openly flouting any attempt at democratic restraint in an effort to assert authoritarian power. By Zach Carter Read At HuffPost American schoolchildren learn at an early age that the…
By GARRETT M. GRAFF Read at Politico The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement. Few sights from the nation’s protests in…
A tweet by Liberty University’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has sparked an angry protest in the evangelical college’s community and a rare apology from Mr. Falwell. By Elizabeth Williamson WASHINGTON — The racial strife roiling the…
After years of an actual terrorist in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
William Barr is an (oddly) Catholic liar. He lies about America’s “Christian past.” He lies about ordering the violence of federal officers against peaceful demonstrators to give Trump a photo-op. I use that uncomfortable phrase…
By Ruth Marcus Every day — every night, to be more precise — more bad apples roll before our eyes. The video is horrifying; the camera unflinching. So, more Americans — white Americans, even Republican Americans,…
By 89 former Defense officials President Trump continues to use inflammatory language as many Americans protest the unlawful death of George Floyd and the unjust treatment of black Americans by our justice system. As the protests…
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Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions By Sam Levine and Anna Massoglia Read at The Guardian A powerful new conservative organization fighting to…
including handfuls of $100 bills – because she was a ‘symbol anti-abortion movement could not afford to lose’ Evangelical anti-abortionists ‘cut checks’ and ‘stuffed hundred-dollar bills’ into ‘Jane Roe,’ Norma McCorvey’s hands, even though they…
For frail seniors Trump has made sure through his lies and ineptitude there simply is no safe haven. Trump’s trade-off in forcing reopening the churches and economy without safeguards is that the lives of our…
The next generation’s terrible trio, and two we’ll leave alone. By Gail Collins Read at New York Times Hey, what do you think the Trump kids are up to? Been a long time since we…
By —Daniel Bush By —Lisa Desjardins Read at PBS Over his decades-long career in the Senate, former Vice President Joe Biden was known as a demanding but fair and family-oriented boss, devoted to his home…
Since 2017, so many events in U.S. politics that were previously unthinkable have come to pass. Don’t believe me? A few days ago, the president of the United States baselessly accused a cable television host…
The attorney general is turning the Justice Department into a political weapon for the president. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate…
By David Von Drehle If ever a person should have a good B.S. detector, one might think it would be Arthur Conan Doyle. His deathless creation, Sherlock Holmes, is perhaps the most compelling rationalist ever born….
American Revolution 2.0, which presents itself as bipartisan, has been assisted by far-right individuals – some with extremist links By Jason Wilson and Robert Evans Read at The Guardian Leaked audio recordings and online materials obtained…
No other advanced nation was as unprepared for the pandemic as was the US because no other nation was living under the rule of the fantasy-land of magical evangelical “thinking” of the white evangelical voting…
By Glenn Kessler Read at Washington Post “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group…
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This we know: Black or brown people gathering in the streets or at the statehouse with rifles and body armor would not be tolerated. They would not be allowed to yell in the face of…
An epidemiologist didn’t hold back in his assessment of the U.S. response to Coronavirus on Wednesday. Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves said the approach came close to genocide. Gonsalves sent a series of tweets slamming the U.S….
After years of a government-destroying maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
After years of an edgelord maniac who incites violence while hiding behind the Secret Service in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to…
White supremacists seek to stoke the fear and disruption caused by the pandemic to push their agenda and to recruit. By Neil MacFarquhar Read at New York Times America’s extremists are attempting to turn the coronavirus…
Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and “collective rage.” By Frank Bruni Read at New York Times I told Laurie Garrett that she might as well change her name to Cassandra….
By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post Four years ago, Donald Trump’s core supporters embraced Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” label because it encapsulated their class struggle against the perceived ruling elite. Now, as Trump’s reelection nears, the…
Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary means the stakes have never been higher in an election than they are for Democrats by David Smith in Washington Read at The Guardian He is 37 and less than 10…
The president’s judicial appointments have been a quieter project than most of his flamboyant presidency, but will have longer-lasting impacts on healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice and the climate by Tom McCarthy in New York Read at…
The Trump-supporting education secretary and her billionaire family have for years promoted rightwing causes and candidates By Adam Gabbatt Read at The Guardian While the anti-coronavirus lockdowns springing up around the US came as a…
By Emily Holden Read at The Guardian Fringe climate science deniers who spread online disinformation are now actively downplaying the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis. DeSmog, a blog and organization…
After years of a science-denying, magical-thinking presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism…
Watch, share, show, promote and win in 2020. We need a BLUE WAVE to wash Trump into the history books where he’ll live on as a warning to America about what white evangelicals with religious…
By Paul FarhiApril 16, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. MSTRead at Washington Post A new research report from a leading journalism organization says President Trump’s attacks on the news media have endangered American democracy and imperiled press…
After years of a government destroying maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age…
After years of evangelicals propping up a maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the…
If you aren’t terrified both by Covid-19 and by its economic consequences, you haven’t been paying attention. Even though social distancing may be slowing the disease’s spread, tens of thousands more Americans will surely die…
The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures. By David FrumStaff writer at The Atlanticread at The Atlantic I don’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March…
Stand up for Mother Earth and your children and grandchildren now by sharing this video and singing this song! Make this video go viral across the globe. I’ll stack this video and song and message…
Beijing punished covid whistleblower, claimed it came from US and ‘is STILL lying about death figures’ – so what CAN we believe from them? Coronavirus is thought to have originated at market in Wuhan before…
Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response. By Michelle Goldberg Read at New York Times Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should…
We can’t change the world but all Americans can agree on this: Let’s unite to destroy, then obliterate Jared Kushner and his family from American life. The failed rich brat just appeared at a Coronavirus…
By Michael Gerson March 30, 2020 Read at Washington Post After learning of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s decision to partially reopen Liberty University, my thoughts turned to the biblical account of Balaam’s ass. According to the Hebrew scriptures,…
After years of an unstable, magical-thinking maniac in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age…
ICYMI, Here I am talking with the great Joy Reid of AM Joy on MSNBC about Donald Trump’s miserable response to this crisis and his preoccupation with pandering to the religious zealots that make up his base,…
Even as most of the world clamps down further on the movement of people, Trump remains focused on restarting the economy and spreading feel-good lies. He can do this because he is in line with…
By Sarah Jones Read at NY Mag The economy must be a hungry god. Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, believes grandparents will sacrifice themselves for it. At the Federalist, a writer wondered if social distancing…
Here Come Republican “Pro-Life” Death Panels. Obamacare didn’t lead to health care rationing but Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus is. And the same vulnerable people the Nazis got rid of- the elderly and infirm, are…
Why are we OK with old people dying? By Louise Aronson Dr. Aronson is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Read at New York Times “Not just old people: Younger adults…
Even in war, America has kept up its democratic traditions. We can’t stop now. By Jon Meacham Mr. Meacham is the author, most recently, of “The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus…
I’m glad Tom Hanks is fine- BUT we know that testing is a key to derailing this virus’s path of destruction. The only communities that get tested fast and early – are primarily be the…
He offered public assurances that the government was ready to face coronavirus then Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold off $1.56 million of stock but never warned us. Make a warning example of Burr…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
After years of a hateful lunatic in the presidency, how do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of…
Dear Evangelicals: The Coronavirus has exposed the falsehood of so many of your notions about Trump: that experts are unnecessary; hunches are a substitute for knowledge; competence in administration is overrated; every criticism is a hoax;…
I was raised in an evangelical home. My family were instrumental in creating the religious right. I was my father’s nepotistic sidekick out on the road for many years in the seventies and eighties until…
By Katherine StewartTue 3 Mar 2020 01.00 EST By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household. His mother had been sexually abused by her father and had her first pregnancy aged 17. Dallas’s…
By Dave Krieger Read at Colorado Sun We watched the season of televised debates with hope, my son and I. At least, in the beginning. Adding Colorado to the list of Super Tuesday states offered…
As a member of one of the first families of the evangelical movement, we were raised to believe that the bible was true; -only- the bible. That science was a hoax. That the earth was…
