
If Spicer was telling the truth last year, and the Trump administration wants to highlight Douglass’s invaluable contribution to American history, they should start with his historic 1852 speech.
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Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, Op-Ed
If Spicer was telling the truth last year, and the Trump administration wants to highlight Douglass’s invaluable contribution to American history, they should start with his historic 1852 speech.
Written by BAYNARD WOODS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis, NEWS+OPINIONS
Like American Nazis, the Golden Dawn fascists claim they are being prosecuted for their ideas—“free speech,” as Richard Spencer and his racist comrades have put it.
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
Kelly’s remark is also a false equivalence. And in the most odious way, because it minimizes the moral turpitude of the Confederacy’s dogged and “by any means necessary” drive to make chattel slavery endure as a central pillar to their Southern way of life.
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
The most seething presidential protest songs in all the land that you should hear but probably haven’t
Written by BAYNARD WOODS Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Now that we know that Yiannopoulos actually sent “his” Breitbart stories (which were actually often not written by him) to Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who works at the Daily Stormer, the bridge phenomenon comes off a bit differently.
Written by BAYNARD WOODS Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
How have Pepe-posting meme warriors responded to real violence?
Written by BAYNARD WOODS Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Check out what this US Park Police officer said about militia members at a far-right rally in DC
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Among the many to weigh in on these issues, the New England First Amendment Coalition (NEFAC) has released a compelling statement... It’s on the money, and so informative and forward-looking that we thought it was our duty to excerpt it here...
Written by BAYNARD WOODS Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold. The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm
Commercial media needed to pin a medal on somebody, and that person wasn’t going to come from any of the many groups that peaceably managed tens of thousands of people.