“Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy?”

“We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” Biden said today…. I’m not saying this to alarm you; I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”
We must, President Biden said, have “the will to save and strengthen our democracy.”

You need to read Heather Cox Richardson’s latest dispatch.

July 13, 2021

“Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy?” In a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia today, President Joe Biden asked his audience to take a stand as he called defending the right to vote in America, “a test of our tim…

Come on, Mr. Biden…

Opinion: The worst speech of Biden’s presidency

CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen argues that President Joe Biden’s speech defending US withdrawal from Afghanistan was peopled with straw men and littered with false assertions.

The Republican Party Finds a New Group to Demonize

The recent wave of anti-trans legislation follows a decades-long pattern of the GOP targeting those they think lack the numbers or votes to properly fight back.

The Republican Party Finds a New Group to Demonize

The recent wave of anti-trans legislation follows a decades-long pattern of the GOP targeting those they think lack the numbers or votes to properly fight back.

“I think that the panic over CRT can be seen as part of this underlying anxiety about the status of White Americans in a changing country.”

“Critical race theory is not anti-patriotic,” Kimberlé Crenshaw told CNN’s Jason Carroll. “In fact, it is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it — because we believe in the 13th and the 14th and the 15th Amendments. We believe in the promises of equality. And we know we can’t get there if we can’t confront and talk honestly about inequality.”

Analysis: The engineered panic over critical race theory, explained

Republicans have disfigured CRT -- an academic frame that scholars have been using in graduate-level courses for decades to interrogate how the legal system entrenches racism -- into a catchall to describe things they don’t like.