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Issue: 1095

July 23, 2026

Color of Law

Fascism Is Underway, and We’ve Been Here Before

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Fascists appeal to a frustrated middle class, and capitalize on an economic crisis or a sense of humiliation or victimhood.

The following is an adaptation of my remarks given at “How to Survive Fascism,” a recent teach-in at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information in…

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Cartoon

Because We Say So

By Mr. Fish Cartoonist and writer

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View from the Battlefield

Trump’s War and Its Brown Casualties

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

We can expect more deadly conflicts with ICE as the midterm elections get closer.

The news of the latest casualties from trump’s war came while he was chillin’ at the FIFA World Cup final. He promised retaliation. Since trump’s attack…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Audacity of the Hustle: What Trump Cashed In on Would Have Castrated Obama

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Had Obama taken home a classified White House lunch menu, federal agents would have descended upon his property in armored vehicles.

America has two presidential rulebooks. One is a leather-bound constitutional volume applied to Barack Obama with an electron microscope, written in concrete, wrapped in barbed wire,…

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Commentary

The Death of Senator Lindsey Graham Is an Opportunity To Stand on Political Principle

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

The bipartisan avalanche of selective amnesia to depict Graham as a congenial and amiable fellow who was never confrontational, even with those with whom he was politically at odds, is perversely disingenuous.

Senator Lindsey Graham’s abrupt and untimely death sent shockwaves throughout Washington and the Beltway establishment as well as the larger mainstream media, the pundit class, bloggers,…

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Commentary

The “Fellow Travelers” Are Back

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

People who had little offered us coffee or water. Cubans spoke candidly about their frustrations. They did not resemble puppets in either Washington’s or Havana’s propaganda.

Fellow traveler” is a phrase dragged from the rhetorical graveyard of the 1950s, when accusation substituted for evidence and dissent became disloyalty. Its appearance in a…

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