Chris Hedges: Trumpland
“Trumpland USA.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, ...
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Trump’s second coming: the first six weeks
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in 2019. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. “This is going to be great television, I will say that,” said Donald Trump at the end of the…
Reality check on Kamala Harris and the upcoming Democratic National Convention
US Senator Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Current American Vice Preside...
Dr. Cornel West announces he is running for president
“Go West.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Dr. Cornel West, the moral philosopher and civil rights activist, has formally announced he is running for president on the People’s Party ticket. Cornel…
Chris Hedges: Rage Against the War Machine speech
“Murder King.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in…
Release of Tyre Nichols’ arrest video shows why police shouldn’t control body-cam footage
Tyre Nichols is seen leaning against a car during a brutal attack by five Memphis police officers on January 7, 2023. Photo courtesy the City of Memphis/AP. On January 7,…
Police violence reached an all-time high last year—are we ready to shrink police budgets?
Photo by Glenn Halog/Flickr The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s…
Russell Banks, John Brown and the American soul
“Russell Banks.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The deep malaise that defines American society—the rage, despair and widespread feelings of betrayal and loss—is rarely captured and almost never explained in the…
America’s theatre of the absurd
“Macdeath.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them…
The politicians who destroyed our democracy want us to vote for them to save it
“The Body Politic.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has…
Why isn’t Trump about to be jailed for his criminal behaviour?
Photo by Marco Verch/Flickr The television broadcasting of the select congressional committee hearings on the January 6 Capitol riot confirms what we already knew, though with a lot of gory…
Fascists in our midst
“Elephants in the Womb.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Supreme Court is relentlessly funding and empowering Christian fascism. It not only overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to…
Rethinking police reform and abolition in the wake of Uvalde
Members of the Uvalde Police Department pose for a photo, August 2018. Photo from Facebook. Eighty minutes passed between the first call to the Uvalde Police Department and the killing…
Jesus, endless war, and the rise of American fascism
“With this Ring.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Democratic Party—which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full…
Body-worn cameras and ending the public subsidization of police accountability
In just the past decade alone, cities across the United States spent in excess of $3 billion to settle police misconduct lawsuits. Illustration by Jared Rodriguez/Truthout. The second-degree murder conviction…
QAnon and America’s political moment
A QAnon flag waves at a Second Amendment rally in Virginia, January 2020. Photo by Anthony Crider/Flickr. According to QAnon supporters, most of whom live in the United States, the…
America invades itself
Protesters gathering outside the United States Capitol before a riot and violent attack carried out by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump, January 6, 2021. Photo by Blink…
The Capitol raid and ‘real-existing democracy’
A man draped in a Trump flag looks on while demonstrators march to the United States Capitol building to protest President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, January 6, 2020. Photo by Tyler…
The coup comes home
Protesters gathering outside the United States Capitol before a riot and violent attack carried out by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump, January 6, 2021. Photo by Tyler…
The great delusion
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and…