Tag : Informed Dissent

Extremist incitement is now just business as usual for the GOP | Views + Opinions | Orlando

The 18-year-old white supremacist who drove 200 miles to shoot 13 people — 10 fatally, 11 Black — in Buffalo,…

2 years ago

Democrats have to find a way to show Americans how their programs have helped people … without making eyes glaze over | Views + Opinions | Orlando

According to a new book by New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell…

2 years ago

Florida Legislature abruptly eliminating Disney’s Reedy Creek District, a mob shakedown by statute, sends an Orwellian message | Views + Opinions | Orlando

Let’s get this out of the way: For a half-century, the state of Florida has prostrated itself before the tourism…

2 years ago

In Florida, the drive to push women back into forced births and LGBT folks back into the closet is just getting going | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge photo via Esther Byrd 4 Liberty/Facebook Gov. Ron DeSantis with his newest appointee to the Florida board…

2 years ago

Researchers bribed Fox News viewers into changing the channel. You won’t believe what happened next | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge photo by Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA Foxhole: The gaslighting of America What I most clearly recall…

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Last week proved just how illegitimate the Supreme Court is — and how much damage it can do | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge Photo by Steve Petteway/U.S. Supreme Court Top Republicans say there’s no need for Justice Clarence Thomas to…

2 years ago

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson defended some bad people. Republicans think that should keep her off the Supreme Court | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge According to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — President Joe Biden’s nominee for the…

2 years ago

Republicans across the country are trying to use legislation to privilege their beliefs over the human rights of others | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge “Fugitive Slaves Fleeing From Maryland to an Underground Railroad Depot in Delaware,” circa 1863 | The Everett…

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Putin’s investment in Donald Trump was designed to soften the ground for an expansion of Russian power into Ukraine | Views + Opinions | Orlando

click to enlarge Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead Having spent the last week earning my Ph.D. in Kremlinology…

2 years ago

Conservatives now use the label ‘critical race theory’ to describe any conversation about race that makes them uncomfortable | Columns | Orlando

If covering the Trump administration was like drinking water from a fire hydrant, analyzing the Biden era has been like…

3 years ago