The relief that we feel at this moment must be tempered by the realization that the hard work starts now As I write this, the presidential election has just been called. I believe the president-elect is striking the right tone in reminding us that 70 mill ...
18 Nov 2020 - Brian Greer
‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...
7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
COMMENTARY | Delaying acknowledgement of the monthlong celebration and giving priority to the nation's founders, the White House has once again demonstrated its disregard for Native people Since 1990, Native American Heritage Month (or a similar vari ...
22 Nov 2019 - Jacqueline Keeler and Desiree Kane
DIRECTOR’S DESK | The Council of Economic Advisers is wrong to recommend a police response When Trump dog-whistles, the hounds of hate come bounding. That’s why Street Roots convened a group of partners on Sept. 25 to draw the line clearly: Donald Trump’s ...
27 Sep 2019 - Kaia Sand
His rhetoric is what 'I would have done, things I would have said,' says a former white supremacist In the early morning hours of July 14, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lash out at four progressive congresswomen of color known as “Th ...
9 Aug 2019 - Adam Sennott
Turning a blind eye to the risks, the president spreads ideas that are likely to spur someone to act, legal expert David Cohen says Three years ago, on Aug. 9, 2016, Rolling Stone magazine published an article by Drexel University Law Professor David Cohe ...
9 Aug 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Our president, who deplores the visibility of homelessness, doesn't understand the federal government’s role in the housing crisis On Monday, Trump free-associated about homelessness with Fox News’ right-wing provocateur Tucker Carl ...
3 Jul 2019 - Kaia Sand
You can’t dismiss President Trump's anti-press rhetoric as simply hyperbole Remember when the phrase “alternative facts” was laughably absurd? It was the term coined by a White House spokesperson a few days after the Trump administration took office ...
16 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | The stigmatizing language undermines real talk about mental health; Trump's problem is bad judgment For quite a while, pundits, journalists, political scientists and many others have exclaimed President Donald Trump is mentally ill. They ...
13 Oct 2017 - Meredith Mathis and Jason Renaud
Miranda Blue, editor at Right Wing Watch, tracks and archives the activities of the religious right and extremist movements America’s religious right first emerged as a powerful political force in the mid 1970s. Followers of televangelists, such as Pat Ro ...
18 Aug 2017 - Emily Green