Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Seva Gunitsky notes that the same culture of elite impunity is behind both the Epstein files and Donald Trump's Russian connections. And Alan…
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Trump’s Nazification of the USA
Project 2025 was the MAGA world’s blueprint for turning the USA into a totalitarian state run by President — now dictator in all but name — Donald Trump. But the…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Don Moynihan examines how the U.S. is experiencing a more rapid fall from democracy to autocracy than any other country in recent history.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Adam Serwer offers a hopeful take on how Minnesota is proving MAGA social theory wrong, showing that the vast majority of people are…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Francine Prose offers a reminder that everything else happening in the U.S. is secondary to the imminent threat of an authoritarian takeover. Ed Burmila…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Inae Oh weighs in on the neo-royalism fueling Trump's sense of divine right. Seva Grunitsky points out that a hubristic belief that might makes…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray discuss the need to go beyond merely calling to abolish ICE and other human rights abuses, and instead…
Fascism
Spectres of Fascism, Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives is a book edited Dr. Samir Gandesha, Director of the SFU'S Institute for the Humanities. It was published in 2020 but is…
Can the USA be Saved?
The United States’ long experiment with democracy ended last year, just months shy of its 249th birthday since it declared independence from Britain. It quickly transformed itself into an authoritarian…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Paul Crider discusses how the Trump regime is setting up the U.S. for explosive internal violence - while planning to blame its victims…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Yanis Varoufakis rightly argues that the EU (and the international community generally) should be treating the U.S.' draconian sanctions against ICC judges as…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Jonathan Last discusses how the U.S. economy is coming apart under a regime which is attacking progress and security in any form. Matt Johnson…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Krugman discusses Donald Trump's mission of making cruelty and bigotry into default positions in American culture. And Jamelle Bouie comments on the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Last discusses how many of the harms being inflicted by the Trump regime can never fully be repaired, while Anne Applebaum writes about…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Zimmer discusses how the Trump regime is attacking concept of treating people as equals, while Greg Sargent highlights Stephen Miller's role in trying…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Jonathan Last discusses how the Trump regime is carrying out campaigns of murder based on known lies with both the purpose and…
United States of Armageddon
If American current events were a dystopian TV series we would all be saying this is over the top, no one can be this diabolically cruel and evil and dementedly…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman discuss the neo-royalism emerging as the Trump regime tries to turn the enrichment of a self-proclaimed god-king into a…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Tim Wu discusses how the richest few have come to dominate our politics (with our health and well-being paying the price), while Ian Welsh…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Coletto discusses how Canadians from across the political spectrum want to see the Carney Libs prioritize housing construction and economic independence, rather…