In an interview with Vanity Fair, Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen revealed in detail just how deeply racist president of the United States really is. Speaking to Emily Jane Fox, Cohen provided extremely troubling statements made by Trump that go far beyond what we ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Yes, you read that right, former leader of the American Nazi Party Arthur Jones is about to become the Republican nominee for an Illinois congressional seat. Jones is a Holocaust denying rabid anti-Semite who believes the mass genocide of the Jewish people in 1940's Germany is ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

America’s longstanding presidential tradition of the State of the Union address will showcase a president who will go down in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest liar in history. Donald Trump is a compulsive liar and he will lie repeatedly on Tuesday when he ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

by Kate Harveston Just when you thought… ok well let's be honest, no one is surprised that Donald Trump just called several countries "shitholes" in a private meeting with several members of Congress. It's about as surprising as the fact that our Twitter-happy president took to ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

“Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out,” Donald Trump reportedly said in his famed meeting on immigration earlier this month. He also referred to the predominantly black nation and other African countries as "shitholes" and asked those present why America couldn't get more ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

For reasons best known to himself, Donald Trump decided to post an easily disprovable lie on Twitter today that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled: Of course it hasn't doubled -- to the contrary, Trump's approval rating among black Americans has more than ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The Banter has long lauded Lawrence O'Donnell as one of the most important voices in the media during the Trump era. For almost two years now, O'Donnell has kept a laser like focus on the president and those complicit in allowing his rise to power. He has been utterly relentless ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 12, 2018

In the small minds of the Alt Right bros who write for Breitbart, Donald Trump cannot be a racist because he doesn't mind Asians coming to America to benefit the economy. After the shocking news broke about Trump decrying "shithole" nations like Haiti sending immigrants to the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 12, 2018

As much as Breitbart.com attempts to portray itself as a respectable publication catering to the “silent majority”, it has and always will be a front for vicious white supremacy. The editorial team at the Alt Right cesspit have struck upon a clever ruse that keeps enough ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 28, 2017

The Right Wing attack machine was in full swing after President Trump's disgraceful 'Pocahontas' attack on Elizabeth Warren at a White House event honoring Native American veterans yesterday. Trump was supposed to be thanking the code talkers for their contributions to World War ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 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

On Sunday 4th, October 1936, my Jewish grandfather took to the streets of the East End in London and went to fight fascists marching through his neighborhood. The Battle of Cable Street was a defining moment in British history when domestic fascism was beaten back and London ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Apparently it was our lack of hospitality that caused all the death and injury in Charlottesville. As progressives, we need to take this to heart and promise to do better in the future. After all, the Nazis and a motley crew of their KKK, alt-right, and skinhead friends are ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Nov 9, 2018

(Cover photo by Bob Cesca: The Virginia Monument, Gettysburg, PA.) The Banter Long Read: The violation was known as "vagrancy." If you were a black man in the South following Reconstruction, and you were unable to show proof of employment on-demand to the police, you could be ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  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

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

“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

Last month, Breitbart editor Alex Marlow went on Real Time with Bill Maher to explain to the HBO host why Breitbart wasn't a cesspool of racial hatred and misinformation. “The Breitbart editors are the most wonderful, diverse, influential journalists on the planet, and no one is ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Apr 3, 2018

Last weekend I arrived at a house warming party of a good friend of mine in Los Angeles. I was in California for my friend and co-worker Chez Pazienza's memorial service, and used the rest of my time to catch up with old friends I knew when I lived there 6 years ago.... To ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 19, 2017

Throughout President Trump's campaign and especially during his transition and first several days in office, it ought to have been more than obvious that he knows absolutely nothing. Worse, he compensates for his staggering post-Bush level of intellectual laziness by bullshitting ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Dan Rather posted a stirring piece on Facebook yesterday that deserves to be shared far and wide. In response to Donald Trump's neo-Nazi followers, extreme cabinet picks and refusal to forcefully denounce racism and bigotry, Rather urged Americans to speak out for the sake of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As thoughtful, reasonable Americans attempt to adjust to what has happened to their country over the past few days, the news just gets worse and worse and worse.  While Donald Trump has walked back some of the most controversial threats and promises he made during the election ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

During a one-on-one interview with a local station, Donald Trump abruptly left because he was asked about being "labeled racist and sexist." The viewers were treated to the bizarre spectacle of the 70-year-old Trump leaving in a childish snit. Right before he left in a huff, he ...read more

• By Jen Froderman
  Nov 9, 2018