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White Men Gone Mad: The Great Backlash of the 21st Century

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Make no mistake: This isn’t just about nostalgia for a mythical past - it’s a full-fledged effort to reshape the future.

Ladies, gentlemen, all of us completely exhausted by history’s relentless reruns, welcome to America’s latest, most unhinged saga: The Revenge of White Men. Yep, without question,…

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The Philadelphia Eagles Have Zero Business Setting Foot in Trump’s White House

By Desi Cortez Columnist

No amount of Super Bowl rings should make a Black-dominated team bow at the feet of a man who has spent years making life harder for Black Americans.

Ah yes, the grand tradition of Super Bowl champions trotting up to the White House, flashing smiles, and pretending it’s all about sportsmanship, not politics. But…

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Whites-Only Water Fountains & Christian-Only Hotels: The Future MAGA Actually Wants

By Desi Cortez Columnist

And just like that, we’re back to the 1950s, only this time, the racism, homophobia, and general disdain for human rights come with an app.

It’s as incontestable as it was predictable - mainstream White America, i.e., MAGA, is back to fantasizing about the good ol’ days of “Jim Crow,” but…

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That Flag Ain’t Innocent—It’s a Crime Scene

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If America actually lived up to its ideals - if it actually embodied equality, democracy, and justice - then maybe, just maybe, people wouldn’t feel compelled to reject its symbols.

Dear Canada: Keep Booing That Anthem - You’re Absolutely Right. To my friends up north, let me start by saying this: I see you. I hear…

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The Left: What We Want, What We Believe

By Desi Cortez Columnist

They hate us. Not just dislike, not just disagree - hate with the fire of a thousand tiki torches at a Charlottesville rally. And that, dear friends, should be, ought be our common thread.

In the face of headlines like this: “Trump Kicks Aside Congress With Sweeping Claims of Presidential Power With aggressive reading of Constitution, president aims to upend…

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When South African Elon Musk Shows You Who and What He Is, Believe Him—the Writing Is on the Wall

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Musk has flipped the veil and declared himself, not in whispers but with a megaphone, as a relic of Apartheid South Africa, steeped in its legacy and evidently quite proud of it.

When South African-born Elon Musk shows you who and what he is, you’d better believe him. At President Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration, Musk made a gesture…

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They May Be Friendly, but They Are Not Your Friends

By Desi Cortez Columnist

A friend doesn’t just say, “I see you” - they fight for you, alongside you, with you, until the systems that oppress you are dismantled and obliterated.

C.S. Lewis offered this pithy morsel of truth decades ago, but damn, how the gravity of his words seems custom-minted for Black America today! The man…

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The Hustler’s Playbook: Trump’s Mastery Over the Poorly Educated

By Desi Cortez Columnist

So here we are, a nation partially steered by the proudly uninformed, captained by a man who manipulates them like puppets.

Alas, the poorly educated. The unshakable foundation of the Trump Tower of Flim-Flam. A constituency so lovingly embraced that Donald J. Trump himself publicly declared his…

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From Punta Cana to America: The Tyranny of Neglect and Exploitation

By Desi Cortez Columnist

this isn’t about sound governance. It’s about unraveling civil rights with the finesse of a drunk toddler unraveling Christmas lights - wrapped in the flag and sold as “greatness.”

I spent the holidays in the Dominican Republic - sun, sand, and an eclectic parade of humanity. Among the cast of beachside philosophers I encountered: A…

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