The Political Freakshow has a post up about the "National Policy Institute." Nice bland name, isn't it? Especially for a white-supremacist think tank.


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Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States - and so soon after the religious festival of Easter ( Read more... )

An open letter to American feminists on the death of Margaret Thatcher[A]s one of our members put it, ‘Holding Thatcher up as a feminist icon is like kicking intersectionality in the stomach.’
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A modest roundup.

Jill Filipovic:To anyone who has taken even a cursory look at reproductive rights activism, it's obvious that decreasing the abortion rate isn't nearly as much a concern for the pro-life movement as controlling women is. ... Despite knowing the key to a lower abortion rate, the so-called "pro-life" movement refuses to use it. ( Read more... )

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after having read both Aaron Bady and Corey Robin on the subject. Here is Bady's first paragraph:Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s Lincoln is about Obama, we are told, or don’t need to be told. It is about the triumph of a political compromiser, and it argues that radical change comes about by triangulation, by back-room deals, and by a ( Read more... )

Public Shaming has found a bunch of people who were not happy that a few high school marching bands and dancers from Mexico took part in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Here are just a few:


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I haven't written much about it because I am still working through having been inculcated as a child to support Israel reflexively. I will, in short, agree with Michael J. Rosenberg:


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Jezebel, which featured a bunch of blatantly racist post-election tweets the other day, has contacted the schools and potential colleges of the teenagers and very young adults who made such tweets.We contacted their school's administrators with the hope that, if their educators were made aware of their students' ignorance, perhaps they could teach ( Read more... )