Fox News issues statement on CNN’s lawsuit against Trump
CNN sued the administration Tuesday after the White House stripped correspondent Jim Acosta of his press credentials last week. Read more on Boston.com.
Snapshots of the New Resistance
Fox News issues statement on CNN’s lawsuit against Trump
CNN sued the administration Tuesday after the White House stripped correspondent Jim Acosta of his press credentials last week. Read more on Boston.com.
The American civil war didn’t end. And Trump is a Confederate president | Rebecca Solnit
In the 158th year of the American civil war, also known as 2018, the Confederacy continues its recent resurgence. Its victims include black people, of course, but also immigrants, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, trans people, gay people and women who want to exercise jurisdiction over their bodies. The Confederacy battles in favor of uncontrolled guns and poisons, including toxins in streams, mercury from coal plants, carbon emissions into the upper atmosphere, and oil exploitation in previously protected lands and waters.
Michael Gerson, one of the most eloquent and principled critics of Donald Trump, insists that we are at June 1973, the moment when John Dean’s testimony broke the dam that a year later swept Richard Nixon off into disgrace. Others agree: This is an inflection point. And yet an equally well-informed friend insists, “I no longer believe in political inflection points and neither should you.” Who knows? But even if we do not recognize the turning points in the moment, we can anticipate what the end will feel like when it does arrive.