Raw Story: Commentary
- Trump’s view of America as a white nation is sadly not that unusual — but it’s wrong
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 02:47 PMAt a meeting discussing possible immigration reform policies, it is reported that President Donald Trump asked why they allowed so many people from “shithole countries,” including Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump’s lies are white nationalist gospel
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 02:56 PMU.S. President Donald Trump’s bigotry is no longer in question. Most recently he has called Haiti, the largest Black nation in our hemisphere, a “shithole” whose people “all have AIDS.” The man’s a racist, period.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The MeToo movement is an eruption of raw aggregated emotion — and it was long overdue
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 01:10 PMLike many female authors digging for material in the darker recesses of personal history, I’ve written about my experience of sexual assault. And that of my sister, meaning actual blood sibling.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here are 4 things Trump has to worry about when Steve Bannon testifies to Mueller
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 09:15 AMDonald Trump should be worried. Former Trump campaign strategist and White House adviser Steve Bannon, summoned by subpoena to testify for special counsel Robert Mueller, has reportedly said he will “cooperate fully.” News of the subpoena came Tuesday, the same day Bannon testified in a ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here are the 6 most misleading media euphemisms for Trump’s racist rhetoric and unhinged behavior
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 01:34 PMNow that Trump has been president for almost a year, it’s time the media called his behavior for what it is rather than try to normalize it. Here are the six most misleading media euphemisms for conduct unbecoming a president: 1.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- What activists today can learn from MLK, the ‘conservative militant’
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 12:47 PMIn the turbulent days following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists launched resistance movements: Greenpeace activists climbed a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word – “Resist.” Similar protests took place elsewhere.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dr. King’s ‘Two Americas’ truer now than ever: Bill Moyers
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 08:41 AMYou may think you know about Martin Luther King, Jr., but there is much about the man and his message we have conveniently forgotten. He was a prophet, like Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah of old, calling kings and plutocrats to account — speaking truth to power.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump is a liar — but his ‘sh*thole’ remark shows he’s often scariest when he says what he truly believes: LA Times
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 06:47 AMIn an off-the-cuff comment with legislators gathered in the Oval Office on Thursday to discuss immigration, President Donald Trump laid bare his world vision. There are wealthy white countries such as Norway, which are welcome to send immigrants to the United States....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here is how to explain to your Republican uncle why the Trump-GOP tax plan is a disgrace
Monday - 12/18/2017 - 02:22 PMHere are the 3 main Republican arguments in favor of the Republican tax plan, followed by the truth. 1. It will make American corporations competitive with foreign corporations, which are taxed at a lower rate.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fredo in the White House: Here is where Trump’s rolling chaos is leading us in 2018
Tuesday - 12/19/2017 - 11:04 AMDonald Trump is wearing thin. He is inherently boring. Everything he says or tweets is so familiar, no matter how offensive, that it’s hard to pay attention to him anymore.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here is why Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ event was more than just a stupid mess
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 01:19 PMDonald Trump’s “Fake News Awards” for what he calls “the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media” have drawn mockery. However, behavioral science research suggests they are deadly serious.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here is why Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ event was more than just a stupid mess
Thursday - 01/18/2018 - 02:47 PMDonald Trump’s “Fake News Awards” for what he calls “the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media” have drawn mockery. However, behavioral science research suggests they are deadly serious.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Donald Trump resembles a mad Roman emperor — but is he more like Nero or Caligula?
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 10:47 AMOver the last 2,000 years, the name Nero has become a synonym for a mad emperor. Nero held power in Rome from 54 to 68 CE as the supreme leader of a nation state that prided itself on its republican government.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Christians of color are rejecting ‘colonial’ Christianity and reclaiming ancestral spiritualities
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 02:34 PMThis is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around the table making polite introductions, and the next we were swapping trauma stories that we—all people of color, many LGBTQ—had experienced in what were essentially white Christian spaces.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are more relevant now than they have been in years
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 12:32 PMA half century after the assassinations of MLK and RFK, we need their visions. In the age of Trump, who offers us no more than his empty “Make America Great Again,” massive tax cuts for corporations and rich people, an Environmental Protection Agency that quickens environmental degradation, and his ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donald Trump shows a stunning ignorance of American history
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 09:59 AMDonald Trump’s denigrating comments about Haiti during a recent congressional meeting shocked people around the globe, but given his track record of disrespecting immigrants, they were not actually that surprising.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump is a liar — but his ‘sh*thole’ remark shows he’s often scariest when he says what he truly believes: LA Times
Sunday - 01/14/2018 - 05:48 AMIn an off-the-cuff comment with legislators gathered in the Oval Office on Thursday to discuss immigration, President Donald Trump laid bare his world vision. There are wealthy white countries such as Norway, which are welcome to send immigrants to the United States....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Fresh Hell?: Sh**hole Countries Edition
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 01:02 PMWelcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and threats of nuclear annihilati...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What awaits us if Mike Pence replaces Donald Trump
Monday - 12/18/2017 - 03:53 PM“I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.” – Mike Pence, Speech to Republican National Convention, 2017 When (and if) Donald J. Trump leaves office – via impeachment, criminal indictment and conviction, resignation, or the 25th amendment – Mike Pence, his Vice President will...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Republican tax bill is the grinchiest Christmas gift yet
Tuesday - 12/19/2017 - 02:25 PMIn 1814, First Lady Dolley Madison helped hide the White House’s famous portrait of George Washington from the British when they burned and sacked the capital. But if the current pack of brigands raiding DC has its way, by the time they’re done, that painting and every other piece of government prop...
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- Despotism is all around us
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:02 PMIt is commonplace for citizens of liberal, democratic nations to believe that despotism is foreign to their own experiences. Their political constitutions display in some form or other a separation of powers, which is specifically intended to prevent the amassing of arbitrary and irresponsible power...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donald Trump’s tribalism has become a threat to America
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 03:18 PMIn recent days, President Donald Trump has sunk to a new low, labeling certain places as “shithole countries” and questioning why we should let people immigrate from Haiti, Africa and Central America.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Donald Trump resembles a mad Roman emperor — but is he more like Nero or Caligula?
Wednesday - 01/17/2018 - 09:06 AMOver the last 2,000 years, the name Nero has become a synonym for a mad emperor. Nero held power in Rome from 54 to 68 CE as the supreme leader of a nation state that prided itself on its republican government.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Christians of color are rejecting ‘colonial’ Christianity and reclaiming ancestral spiritualities
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 04:47 PMThis is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around the table making polite introductions, and the next we were swapping trauma stories that we—all people of color, many LGBTQ—had experienced in what were essentially white Christian spaces.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- What activists today can learn from MLK, the ‘conservative militant’
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 09:55 AMIn the turbulent days following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, activists launched resistance movements: Greenpeace activists climbed a large construction crane near the White House and unfurled a large banner with the single word – “Resist.” Similar protests took place elsewhere.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- You lead a sh*thole country, President Trump
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 10:12 AMOn Thursday, during a meeting on immigration, President Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as ” shitholes.” U.S. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who was present during the discussion, told reporters that Trump used “vile, vulgar...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The way Trump is talking about Africans is how people used to talk about Jews before the Holocaust
Monday - 01/15/2018 - 09:14 AMOn Thursday, January 11, during a discussion of immigration with congressmen from both parties, the President of the United States was reported to have asked, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Such “shithole” countries included Haiti and a number of nations in A...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Fresh Hell?: Sh**hole Countries Edition
Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 02:47 PMWelcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and threats of nuclear annihilati...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Black voters won Alabama for the Dems. Here’s what they need in return
Monday - 12/18/2017 - 02:36 PMAs a scholar of African-American and Southern politics for the last 25 years, I’ve witnessed a lot of election upsets and surprises. None has been more interesting than the Democrat Doug Jones’ election to the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Who said it: A Republican congressman or a Christmas villain?
Wednesday - 12/20/2017 - 03:23 AMCan you tell the difference between Paul Ryan and Ebenezer Scrooge?...
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