Deeper Dives
Article V Constitutional Convention – Uncharted Territory
Article V of the US Constitution suggests two methods to make and approve amendments but the language, according to Lawrence Tribe, is "dangerously vague, and there is a possibility that the same interests that have corrupted Washington's politics may have a hand in efforts to rewrite it."
Palestine and the Israeli Far-Right: Occupation of the American Mind
Through decades of persistent messaging, many U.S. Americans have been convinced that opposing the destruction of Gaza and the West Bank by the far-right Netanyahu regime is antisemitic and the same as anti-Zionism. Historical analyses demonstrates the ways this has made U.S. citizens outliers and complicit in 75 years of genocide.
U.S. Nationalism, Fascism, and Exceptionalism
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions... Buchanan saw society as a cutthroat realm of makers (entrepreneurs) constantly under siege by takers (everybody else) His own language was often more stark, warning the alleged “prey” of “parasites” and “predators” out to fleece them.