Well that didn't take long. Fresh from his embarrassing removal from Trump's reality show of a presidential administration, Steve Bannon is back doing what he does best: defending the indefensible and promoting intellectual white nationalism.  In an excerpt of a “60 Minutes” ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

Along with many other black writers across the country, I have made former presidential candidate and now HUD Secretary Ben Carson the object of my disappointment in aligning himself with Donald Trump.  Carson has been rightfully skewered for his ignorant political views and ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

Trump lackeys are not having a great time on television these days. With tolerance for blatant bullshit at an all time low, those still willing to go on legitimate media outlets to defend the president are being pounded into mincemeat by reporters and pundits who simply will not ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 20, 2017

In an act of what can only be described as terrorism, a neo-Nazi driver plowed his car into peaceful protesters, injuring many and killing 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer in Charlottesville last weekend. 20 year old James Alex Fields Jr. is being charged with 2nd degree ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

There's a familiar pattern to the president's incessant lying: he says something demonstrably false, gets destroyed by the press and public for lying, then he claims everyone else is lying about whatever it was he said.  Over the past few days, Trump has explicitly stated that ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Over the past few days, Donald Trump has refused to condemn white supremacists and Nazis, attempted to cover up his initial position, then reverted back to his original take labeling some of the thugs marching in Charlottesville "very fine people" and condemning anti-fascists. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

It seems sad to revel in someone else's misfortune, but Donald Trump's disastrous poll numbers is a joyous sign that the majority of Americans are finally coming to terms with the fact that he should not be anywhere near the White House. In the wake of the terrorism in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Just when it seemed like Donald Trump was capable of passing the lowest bar ever, when he finally said "racism is evil" yesterday after three days of refusing to acknowledge that the events in Charlottesville were caused by white nationalist neo-Nazis, he did a press conference ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Tragedy struck Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, and once again, hatred is at the center of the conversation in America. White supremacists marched in the middle of the night showing their anger for the impending removal of the Robert E. Lee confederate statue. The ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

There isn't a huge amount to be positive about when it comes to the horrible events that transpired over the weekend in Charlottesville Virginia, but this video of ‘Unite the Right’ rally organizer Jason Kessler running for his life is one of them:  I am not an advocate of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

This cannot be repeated often enough: The American right wing no longer exists in the same universe as the rest of the world. They have been completely isolated from reality by an all encompassing media bubble that feeds them pure propaganda 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018

After a white supremacist plowed his car into a crowd of anti-fascist protestors, one would think that responsible media outlets would cover the story quite extensively. Not so if you're Breitbart.com -- the internet's thinly disguised home to America's White Power community. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 14, 2017

"Cassandra failed to pay [Apollo] for the gift of prophecy; in [her] case, however, the result was not that she lost the gift, but that no one believed her."  - Robert Graves, The Greek Myths The curse of Cassandra - the woman who told the truth but couldn't get anyone to listen ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an Internet adage that asserts that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1."‍—‌that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Ever since a group of deeply oppressed white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday night, social media has been hard at work identifying the Citronella Nazis with the intent of getting them fired from their jobs and ruining their lives: The question is ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Aug 13, 2017

“We are determined to take our country back,” said former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia today. “We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018