6 ways to fight resistance fatigue
We’re only three months into Donald Trump’s (likely) four-year term, but for many activists, it already feels much longer. The daily onslaught of disturbing developments is exhausting....
Category: Commentary
A British General Election has been announced: promises and chaos abound
Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Theresa May did what she had formerly promised she wouldn’t do, and called a snap general election for seven weeks’ time. Whether she wants a...
Democrats Choosing Sanders to Lead are Leaving Too Much of their Base Behind
At this very moment, Bernie Sanders has joined Tom Perez in an ongoing series of unity rallies. Can we unite? It’s hard to know. If uniting means putting Bernie in charge? Many of us will...
How Did Race Motivate United Airlines’ Treatment of Dr. David Dao?
By now, I suspect that most everyone with access to the Internet has seen the videos of Dr. David Dao being dragged from a United Airlines plane at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. At...
Song as resistance: The strange story of Estonia’s singing revolution
“Mu isamaa on minu arm.” The unofficial national anthem of Estonia translates as “Land of my fathers, land that I love.” It began as a poem written by Estonian poet, Lydia Koidula,...
Pepsi, Nivea, United and Spicer: a disastrous PR week for all
Earlier this week, we couldn’t have predicted that Pepsi’s PR screw-up would be several down the list of worst PR disasters this week. It was a bit like the day of the Brexit referendum...
Syrian missile strikes and the new cold war
Donald Trump’s recent military strike on Syria, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, is based on assumption and lacks any sort of direction. The injustice done in the Syrian...
Ossoff, Thompson, and the future of Democrats in red states
After today, Democrats will have a much better idea of how many House seats could swing their way in 2018, as James Thompson and Ron Estes face off in a special election to fill Mike...
Christians lament the lack of Jesus and excess of Muslims in chocolate eggs
If there’s one thing Jesus was renowned for, it was his lengthy teachings on Pagan-based fertility symbols. The guy barely shut up about eggs, for instance. And perhaps one of the...
The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Muslim Ban: An American Tradition of Alienation
In 1882 America banned Chinese people from coming to America. It was the first time that America placed legislative restrictions and regulations on a group of people who sought entry into the United...