The Bourbon heir to the French throne has thrown his support behind the gilets jaunes protests. On Facebook. I'm mostly reeling from the revelation that Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, dit Louis XX...
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In part because of our 24-hour media culture, every political act is defined in terms of winners and losers, with each loss seemingly devastating. There is good reason for that--many.
While the right goes full fascism, writer after writer in mainstream publications, spills much more ink about the horrors of someone confronting Scott Pruitt or Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a.
Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington. Organizers of the Women's March on Washington...
As I type, the March for Our Lives is happening around the nation. People, led by the youth, are marching against American gun culture and our politicians responding to mass.
Tiya Miles is one of our top historians of slavery in its various 19th century forms (this is a really great book on slavery and the Cherokees) and I really.
The real heroes of last night's vote are not John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, or Susan Collins. They aren't the 48 Democratic senators either. The real heroes are the direct action protestors in ADAPT that demonstrated tremendous courage in going to the offices of senators and...
In yet another clear signal about the consequences of embracing strongmen: violence erupted at the Turkish embassy in DC yesterday, just after Turkish President Erdogan enjoyed his cozy White House.
I know I am shocked that the white response to black athletes protesting is framed by white racism. But all those white people love the conservative.
Weigel has a good summary of how grassroots resistance stopped TrumpCare. It wasn't a strategy coming out of Congressional Democrats. It was everyday people, getting in the streets, protesting, disrupting town hall meetings, holding mock town hall meetings for congresscritters who wouldn't do them, and...
There's a lot of talk going on around the left right now about a "general strike" to be held on Friday, or whenever another faction says it should be. This.
TOPSHOT - People rally as they take part in a protest against Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in New York on March 19,2016. / AFP /.