The Tim Dillon Show is disorienting and disturbing. It also has a massive audience, to whom it reflects back the disorientation and disturbance of contemporary society in pseudo-personalized form.

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.

Back in June, I attended the first "No Kings" rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While crowd

Just like smarmy teeny MAGA Mike warned, up to eight million Marxists, terrorists, Hamas fighters and other patriots - along with hordes of radical inflatable frogs, chickens, unicorns, bananas - stormed America's streets to march, sing, dance, feel "joyful…

Separating the Practical from the Ideal Intractable conflicts are wars without end, and Russia’s war with Ukraine seems to fit the bill. Now three and a

The massively successful NoKings2.0 has again underlined Donald Trump’s four failing MAGA fascist roots: male dominance; global white dominance; US

As a co-editor of Inequality.org, I get a lot of fan mail (and a few complaints). Greg B. recently wrote in, “None of my problems exist as a result of

Funny thing about war: it is relatively easy to start. An insult here. A lie there. A “false flag” as a casus belli there, and shots, bombs, missiles

Remember those lines during the Bush 2 Iraq War days about empire, we’re creating our own reality, and something about history, too? This strikes me as

The Galápagos Islands harbor some of the most unique ecosystems on the planet. Their isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has allowed

Thank you, Washington. What a great turnout. Thank you, Indivisible, for your fantastic organizing. Thank you to the millions of Americans, from our

Professor Emeritus Roddey Reid could have retired from the University of California San Diego to a life of deserved leisure. Instead, he has just

When I was growing up in Chicago, a local AM radio station had a disc jockey named Larry Lujack. The introduction to his show called him “a legend in his

The term “covert action” is a peculiarly American invention; it does not appear in the lexicon of other intelligence services.  Nor does the term appear in the National Security Act of 1947, which created the Central Intelligence Agency.  Covert action refers…

Movement leader compares initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas brokered by Donald Trump has come into effect.

Marxism represents the ripest product of humanity’s finest intellectual traditions.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.

FROM ANDOR TO A NEW HOPE