Nothing like an uninformed opinion passing as reasoned commentary. That's what TV pundit land is made of and nobody is more the superficial simulacrum of a thinker than Donald Trump. Trump decided to weigh in on the removal of...
This is a good day. A few months ago, when the composition of the Ahmaud Arbery jury was announced, I despaired. The fact that there were three defendants allowed the defense to get three times as many peremptory challenges...
Last night President Biden screened Chinonye Chukwu’s 2022 film Till at the White House and delivered some remarks afterward.
Till of course portrays the 1955 murder of 14 year old black child from Chicago, Emmet Till, in rural Mississippi for...
This is reminiscent of that wonderful John Carpenter movie, They Live! where aliens lived incognito amongst us and only people equipped with special glasses could see them. Jesse Waters is very concerned about the aliens amongst now. Whether that...
Elie Mystal, editor of Above The Law and clear thinker has something to say on Twitter about the Virginia Governor Ralph Northam sh*t storm that Northam’s few remaining apologists aren’t gonna like….
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1091605726341095424
“So, my senior year of high school I...
It's not surprising that right-wing media and Steve Bannon in particular have chosen this pivot. The Buffalo shooter's manifesto is straight out of Tucker Carlson's broadcasts and that's not a good look to have. So it's time to deflect...
Over the past weekend, Hungary’s Viktor Orban made a speech so openly racist and offensive in its content that it prompted the resignation of one of his long time aides, who called the speech “worthy of Goebbels.”
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“During a...
Darwin believed that man evolved upwards from apes. Sadly, some of us have already started the return journey
From where I'm sitting, it all started with the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education. Before that ruling, racist parents...
Since Paul Gosar was trained as a dentist and not as a lawyer, he evidently doesn't know that the truth is an absolute defense to defamation. A reporter referred to Gosar as a "white nationalist" which is pretty unremarkable...
Donald Trump accepted an invitation to speak at the NAACP convention next week in Detroit, but now he's not going. All American presidents are invited to participate in the convention, regardless of party affiliation. However, Trump seems to have...
