Musk v Trump: No matter who wins, the American people lose
It’s the uncoupling of the decade—bigger than Brangelina and messier than Kanye breaking up with…
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The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
Elon Musk has been warning about the imminent end of human life as we know…
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Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
Last I checked, my uterus was in a jar in Schenectady. An ignoble end for…
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Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884…
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Germany classifies ‘right-wing extremist’ AfD as a danger to democracy — and high-ranking Trump officials jump to defend it
Last week, the BfV, a German intelligence agency tasked with investigating threats to the “liberal…
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New WA Mandatory Reporter Law Is Only Anti-Catholic if ‘Catholic’ Means Protecting Sexual Predators
In our latest installment of “somehow this is actually happening,” Trump’s DOJ announced this week—with…
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This White Man’s Blunder — Why RFK’s Obsession with Chemtrails and Terrain Theory Won’t Make America Healthy
Another day, another series of alarming claims from Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the current head…
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What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in…
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The Fight Against Right-Wing Appalachian ‘School Choice’ Politics Is a Fight for Democracy and the Future of American Education
In October 2024, a flyer appeared in the mailboxes of Kentucky residents, promoting an amendment…
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RFK Jr’s Campaign Against Seed Oils Isn’t Just Junk Science — It’s Misogynist Identity Politics
Just before the November election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr…
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