Opinion
What Georgia’s Historic Voter Turnout Reveals About Enacting Change on the Local Level
Georgia turned blue for the first time since 1992, and we have one group to thank: Black women and grassroots activists whose advocacy has proven the efficacy of working towards progress on the local level.
Where Does QAnon Go From Here?
In 2017, before Greene’s Congressional run, she posted a video summarizing the QAnon theory and asserting, “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.”
We’ve Seen This Before
As a foreigner who is deeply concerned about our friends and neighbors in the United States, but nonetheless free from the visceral passions any politically engaged, responsible American must justly feel right now, I can only invite you to learn from our history in an attempt to repair the damage and move forward.
A Fragmented Consensus
Authoritarian regimes seem to have fallen from accepted fashion, the liberalization of the West all but permanent. We have grown used to taking comfort in the status quo, in democracy. But too often, the underlying tremors of national dissolution are hidden by the celebratory cheers of November.
The Changing Face of Poverty in South America
While this is more true of some countries than others, and despite all of the challenges outlined above, the fact remains that South America as a whole has made enormous strides over the past twenty years in not only reducing poverty but, more importantly, changing the very nature of poverty.
Twin Pandemics: An Autopsy of the Current Moment
How did we become so anesthetized to the deaths and suffering of the people at society’s margins?
Where is the GOP Going?
The GOP gains in the House and their continued Senatorial strength show a new path for the Republican Party. This poses problems for the liberal left and the libertarian right who have anticipated the electoral collapse of the Republican Party.
It’s the End of the World as We Know it (and Amazon Feels Not-so-Fine)
Establishing a regulatory framework around Amazon that does not address the ability of Amazon to use its power to influence the government would quite possibly take us the way of Dr. Frankenstein. The government’s place is not to run this market but rather to protect the people in it.