In the party of Trump, deceit is the new common parlance.
Books
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Eric Alterman’s List of the Best Stuff of 2022
The year in movies, books, music, and art
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Altercation: Getting Real on Crime and Punishment
Republicans and New York’s ‘Democratic’ mayor demagogue on the issue, even as many real Democrats fail even to engage it.
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Altercation: The Journalism Business Is Bad, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.
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Nonviolence From a Military Angle
A new history of the civil rights movement gets a lot right but falls short in trying to reframe the story.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Bibi and Donald, Growing Even Worse
Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer
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⏩ Do Veterans Need a New Agenda in Washington?
A discussion of issues affecting veterans and why progressives should pay more attention to veterans affairs
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Cyborgs on the Highways
A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.
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Altercation: Here’s What’s Really Behind the News
Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)
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The Corruption of the Legal Profession
A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.
