Month: July 2018

Trump Has Almost Cashed His Check

History is more an art than a science which becomes clear when you realize that it rhymes without ever quite repeating itself. We can read some strikingly similar stanzas when we go back to a rough time period in Richard...

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This Is An Uprising: Dividing to Conquer

(One in a series of posts on Mark & Paul Engler’s 2016 book, This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping The Twenty-First Century.) Whatever your cause of issue, most people don’t know about it, care...

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“Owning the Libs” Has Always Been With Us

Eve Peyser does a good job of explaining how the phrase “owning the libs” gained currency and what it means. The occasion is U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley’s recent decision to admonish a bunch of high schoolers...

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