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26/02/2025

Today, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the once-storied Washington Post made clear where he wants his paper to stand: Capitulation to an authoritarian government.

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26/02/2025

The last Trump administration was full of disinformation, but the 2.0 term has taken propaganda to a new, truly dangerous level.

We've got a look at what is happening and some advice on how to combat the lies and build up your resilience.

So here we are, back in a disinformation-riddled Trump administration. This time around, though, we have fewer journalists, no Twitter, and malevolent maniacs wrecking our federal government. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. I’ve heard it again and again, along with that famous...

19/02/2025

Fifty years ago, the dystopic film, The Stepford Wives, imagined suburban white men swapping their spouses for robot trad wives terrified viewers. Now, it watches like a playbook for these times.

Since The Stepford Wives was first shown on movie screens 50 years ago, its title has become shorthand for women in thrall to a throwback domesticized femininity. The film’s warning about retrograde gender roles, though, is framed in a plot which expresses anxieties about a future of dehumanizatio...

05/02/2025

This isn’t the first time in U.S. history that the oligarchs wielded tremendous influence over the government. But now, with far more money and control over our information, they’re looking to seize power.

This is one goal that Musk and others have for the U.S. government today. They want to carve off parts of the federal government and either privatize their functions and seize them for themselves, or simply destroy them.

There is a huge chasm between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of us. In 2024, it came out that Jeff Bezos makes roughly $7.9 million an hour—more than three times as much as a typical college grad earns in their whole lifetime. The 801 billionaires in this country hold a combined $6.2 trilli...

04/02/2025

Time and again, we’ve seen that once we cede ground on one issue of bodily autonomy, it is only a matter of time before the Right attempts to gain control of more territory.

In the brief time that Trump has been back in the White House, he’s unleashed an aggressive assault on democratic norms, federal funding of programs across the nation, and anything remotely resembling basic decency toward people who aren’t straight cis white men. He’s signed so many executive ...

28/01/2025

We've launched a new monthly personal finance column today.

Our goal: help folks protect their money & provide actionable insights to help weather whatever economic storm this new administration may bring.

This month, we’ll kick off with a dive into the potential economic impact of the proposed policies, answering such questions as: What do the experts see in the financial tea leaves for 2025? Are the predictions about this administration tanking the economy and driving up inflation overblown? And, perhaps, most important of all: What are financial gurus advising we do to blunt the worst effects?

In the next five years, women are poised to control an unprecedented amount of wealth and financial power in America. Although it doesn’t seem that way given the male billionaires currently controlling the media and political landscape, numbers don’t lie. By 2030, women, who outlive men by an av...

23/01/2025

Climate disasters have an afterlife, defined by their political and cultural ramifications.

And as climate crises like the Los Angeles fires and Hurricane Helene grow in intensity and frequency, history can help us with new ways to approach to mitigation moving forward.

As climate crises grow in intensity and frequency, we need to examine our history of climate disaster and reconsider our approach moving forward.

21/01/2025

There’s hardly a corner of American life left untouched by his Sharpie stained barrage of executive orders.

Except maybe lowering the price of eggs.

Surprise! The new-old president has made it his mission to betray his promises to his voters and spite the previous administration and the country.

02/01/2025

Authoritarian propaganda isn’t just designed to mislead. It’s designed to pour lemon juice in the wounds of cultural divisions, distract from corruption and unchecked corporate power, and construct a permission culture for cruelty.

And the rightwing media apparatus is fuel for it all.

America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error. It’s a global assault on reason and informed consensus, and corporations and authoritaria...

30/12/2024

President Carter believed that government was both a problem and the solution and kept both of those values in his head simultaneously.

He was a tolerant man and he understood that human rights were a principle, and he was perfectly willing to do the right thing, even at great political cost.

And he was prescient in his understanding of the need to protect the climate, issuing the first federal government report on global warming that predicted the consequences of carbon buildup in the atmosphere and the problems we’re facing with climate change today.

On December 29, 2024, we lost Jimmy Carter—the one-time governor of Georgia and one-term president of the United States. At 100, he outlived his beloved wife, Rosalynn Smith, to whom he’d been married since 1946, and who died a year earlier, in November 2023. Beloved for his humanitarian work, C...

19/12/2024

While so many on the left were completely bewildered by the fact that Americans could willingly overlook the alleged s*xual violence of the president-elect and his appointees, those who have reported on s*xual abuse and intimate partner violence in sports were not surprised in the least.

Within days of his election on November 5, Donald Trump, a man adjudicated liable for s*xual abuse by a jury of his peers, nominated four men credibly accused of s*xual misconduct for high-level cabinet positions in his impending administration. According to CBS News, Fox News host Pete Hegseth—Tr...

17/12/2024

For a number of domestic violence survivors, there are parallels between their abusive exes and the tactics of the incoming administration. Their insights can help us prepare and protect ourselves for the months and years ahead.

When Nina first met her ex, she thought she had found her perfect match. She and her partner were both q***r and building careers in creative industries, and those shared interests fueled a powerful bond in the early days of their relationship. But over time, he resented the way Nina’s writing car...

11/12/2024

Despite the dangers of the incoming administration, our corporate media continues to soft pedal it all.

When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden of tax evasion crimes for which no non-famous person would ever be prosecuted, every newsroom in America treated it like Christmas morning had come at Super Bowl halftime during Mardi Gras. Editors and producers at newspapers and television netw...

03/12/2024

Lawmakers not only have an opportunity to derail the coming "coronation" and slow the damage of the incoming Trump administration—they have a constitutional duty to do so.

Lawmakers not only have an opportunity to derail the coming coronation and slow the damage—they have a constitutional duty to do so.

20/11/2024

Fascism has been embedded in US fabric for a century. So why are Democrats wasting time blaming each other over why we lost the election when we need to be fighting like hell to save our country?

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/20/democrats-stop-the-blame-game-and-prepare-for-the-fight-of-our-lives/

19/11/2024

Yes, our national media failed again.

And now with their stunning hypocrisy after the election result, bending the knee and obeying in advance to a fascistic administration speaks volumes about the failure of our fourth estate to live up to their role in protecting democracy.

The day after former-President Donald Trump defeated Vice-President Kamala Harris, America’s national media began asking tough questions about how Trump planned to immediately deport millions of immigrants, a key campaign promise. How exactly would Trump institute high tariffs on foreign goods wit...

04/11/2024

"In too many American families, people—especially, but not exclusively, women—have been cornered and cowed into political silence," writes Sarah Stankorb.

Tia Levings’s recent memoir A Well-Trained Wife detailed her life in a patriarchal, Christian marriage. Her former husband was controlling, physically abusive, and believed he was theologically justified in “disciplining” her with spankings. Levings suffered a toll for taking any step outside ...

24/10/2024

Project 2025 and a second Trump term promises to spell disaster for public education, and not only because of threats to close the Department of Education.

Educators are impacted by countless issues that could be shaped by presidential and statewide elections, including the continued banning of books and gun violence. Add to that climate policy and the economy which also directly affect the function of schools and well-being of students and faculty within them and you start to see that nearly every issue is an education issue.

Anna Buckley, a third-year college student at Fayetteville State University—which she describes as the “No. 1 HBCU for public education in North Carolina”—comes from a family of educators and plans to join them in the field. She has been a tutor most of her life. But right now, Buckley is fo...