305 words The dark side of American conservatism has taken over: it’s obvious that the history of modern conservative is permeated with racism, extremism, conspiracy-mongering, isolationism and know-nothingism 119 words America's new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone | Accountability is for the little people, immunity is for the ruling class. If this ethos seems familiar, that is because it has preceded some of the darkest moments in human history 154 words A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany: “If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.” 140 words Capitalism Helps the Poor, Democratic Socialism Does Not 184 words Richard Sackler became a multi-billionaire after owing and aggressively marketing OxyContin, the drug at the heart of the opioid crisis. He's now back with a new drug to sell you. Its purpose? Its a drug to help you kick your oxycontin addiction. 120 words Climate change is supercharging a hot and dangerous Northern Hemisphere summer. Climate models for three decades have predicted exactly what the world is seeing this summer. 231 words A Scholar Asked, ‘Why Can’t We Hate Men?’ Now She Responds to the Deluge of Criticism 247 words The Antidote to Trump Is Decency 124 words Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why. 117 words Driven to death by Uber 143 words Denmark swings right on immigration – and Muslims feel besieged 177 words This is what it feels like to be black in white spaces: Black people experience discrimination every day – it’s knowledge inaccessible to white people and, when confronted with it, most are incredulous 189 words The prescription abortion pill we could have, but don’t 137 words When a mass killing happens, youth and maleness are worth noting 122 words She walked into my life in Gucci sandals and Céline glasses, and showed me a glamorous, frictionless world of hotel living and Le Coucou dinners and infrared saunas and Moroccan vacations. And then she made my $62,000 disappear. 180 words How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Racial Backlash 226 words This is the face of a terrorist: White people must understand the damage done by group blame that follows other terror attacks 128 words "Like Peterson, many of these hyper-masculinist thinkers saw compassion as a vice and urged insecure men to harden their hearts against the weak (women and minorities) on the grounds that the latter were biologically and culturally inferior." 187 words Maybe Taxi Drivers Don’t Hate Progress, Maybe They Just Don’t Want To Be Poor 116 words Jeff Sessions is helping the police to take your stuff away. The Trump administration has decided to support the deeply unpopular policy of civil forfeiture.