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Issue: 1056

September 25, 2025

Cover Story

The Corrosive Ideology of Donald John Trump

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

The President has said many times that we talk about enslavement too much. I say we cannot talk about it often enough.

When does a depiction of history turn into a “corrosive ideology”? When the current administration is working overtime to erase facts about our nation’s history and…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

A Five-Point Program To Save Democracy (and Maybe the Planet)

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Five words. Five points. Five reasons not to roll the dice on authoritarian cosplay.

If - and it’s a very shaky if - the United States of America is still recognizable as an actual country by the time the 2026/28…

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Commentary

Pam Bondi and the First Amendment

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

It is important to remember that when you attempt to curtail the free speech of others, it may very well only be a matter of time before your voice can be stifled or outright silenced.

The horrific and sadistic assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has unleashed all sorts of cascading emotions and has apparently resulted in Attorney General…

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Color of Law

A World Where We Treat All Children As Our Own

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Ultimately, the Occupation is the elephant in the room, a policy which deprives the occupied of their dignity and right to self-determination, and denies the occupiers their humanity and robs them of the opportunity to become a truly democratic state.

When the family of kidnapped and lynched Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir recently grieved together with the family of abducted and murdered Israeli teen Naftali Fraenkel,…

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Guest Commentary

The Shooter’s Ideology

By David Swanson Guest Commentator

A shooter may believe that certain scapegoated types of people are a threat to his type of people.

The hunt for the political ideology driving each murder that makes the news obscures some key points. One is that the shooter is almost always a…

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