Issue: 837
Oct 15, 2020
Color of Law
Why Is Nancy Pelosi Talking about Trump and the 25th Amendment?
Executive Editor
Notwithstanding Trump’s record of offensive behavior, toxic racism and hazardous policies over the past four years, his more recent actions and statements have raised serious concerns about his fitness for office and the threat he poses to national security.
In light of the erratic and unstable behavior of President Donald Trump - who, since contracting the coronavirus has been over the top, even by his…
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The African World
The Illness of King Donald, or Why Progressives Cannot Concede Any Ground to a Sympathy Vote for Trump
Editorial Board
Such expressions of sympathy, while understandable, can lead one to misunderstand the nature of the current crisis and also to misunderstand the importance of voting Trump out on November 3rd.
Why the surprise, one might ask? The same question can and should be posed not only to the Trump family but to the Republican deniers who…
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Commentary
Violence in the Streets or Peaceful Transfer of Power – The Invisible Woman
Editorial Board
Trump’s Twitter attacks against Governor Whitmer fanned the flames of discord — a tactic that keeps his base coming back for more and mobilizes them to build a united front. His refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power gives him the rogue outlaw image his base loves — that unwavering bunch of 40 million.
A good indicator of the credibility of these polls is the outbreak of partisan violence that’s already happened at political rallies and otherwise peaceful protests. Another…
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Commentary
Monsters Are Scary. So are Brilliant Black Women
Editorial Board
We are his monsters, the folks lurking under his bed, inside his consciousness, willing to call him out.
I was frightened of monsters when I was a child. Not so sure why, but my brother, who loved to plague me, used to tell me…
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Commentary
Reading Frederick Douglass during the Pandemic and Black Lives Matter Protests Part II
Editorial Board
This creation of what isn’t human distracts from what is human and we are never to notice and always forget that the use of deliberate and cruel violence makes a fantasy within a reality for the benefit of the entitled to maintain the power of life and death over others.
In the thirteenth century, England expels Jews from the country. Over thirteen hundred Jews were forcefully deported with “no precipitating crisis, no emergency, not even any…
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Commentary
Trump’s Rush to Get Back on the Campaign Trail…Why? – Solidarity America
Columnist
He needs the energy of their naked hatred, hatred of the “other,” and that could be anything that spews forth from the mouth of their “dear leader.”
Having had a three-day treatment of Covid-19 with experimental drugs, President Trump has rushed to get back on the campaign trail, a place he feels most…
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