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Tom Cotton Thinks Slavery Was a "Necessary" Evil. Here Are Some Others.
By calling slavery necessary, Cotton was following in the banal footsteps of apologists for all of history’s worst acts.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Political Correctness Is Destroying America! (Just Not How You Think.)
The vast, vast majority of political correctness in America is conservative, and it‘s extremely dangerous.
Carl Reiner’s Life Should Remind Us: If You Like Laughing, Thank FDR and the New Deal
Reiner, Stephen Colbert, Jordan Peele, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Their comedy descends directly from the Works Progress Administration.
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Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further.
The Movement for Black Lives says, “We seek not reform but transformation.” Here’s what that would mean.
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As Teddy Roosevelt’s Statue Falls, Let’s Remember How Truly Dark His History Was
Nazism was an outgrowth and the logical culmination of the European colonialism celebrated by Roosevelt.
John Bolton Is Telling the Truth, but Let’s Not Forget His Horrible, Dangerous Career
Bolton didn’t just love endless wars. He even pushed infant formula in countries with contaminated water.
With His Latest Lunacy, Trump Has Moved Into Nixon Territory — and Perhaps Beyond
Trump’s berserk claim about Martin Gugino, a protester shoved to the ground by police, recalls Nixon’s musings about a horrific photo from the Vietnam War.
A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests
For decades, local police and FBI have sent undercover officials to participate in — and escalate — protests.
The Coronavirus Crisis
“Money Is as Much Mine as It Is Yours”: Weird Historical Echoes as an Elite D.C. School Gets a Bailout
Woodrow Wilson, race, class, and why Sidwell Friends got $5.2 million from the federal government.
“Capital in the 21st Century”: Finally, a Movie That Tells the Story of How We Got Into This Mess
Based on the bestseller by Thomas Piketty, this documentary shows how the elite stays in power by shaping the way we think.