Is the Capitol Insurrection a Sign of a Failed State?

My first thought as I watched the Capitol Insurrection unfold was: The reason these people marched to the Capitol Building at the behest of Trump was because they had been radicalized by a mobster president, lied to by their elected Republican officials, and whipped into a frenzy of hate due to unemployment, hunger, grief at […]

Manufacturing Consent: It Takes a Village

Before our current troubles, the news around the world was bad. Now, not only do Americans have to deal with the climate crisis and a loser president who sits on his butt and tweets all day, we also have to deal with a new deadly strain of a coronavirus Covid-19. Just to make things worse, […]