The Midterms Only Deepened America’s Divide
The elections confirmed the Republicans are a minority party desperately clinging to power.
The Indypendent
Nicholas Powers
Explosive Rage: Why Trump and the GOP Are Embracing Hate
“I am a nationalist,” Donald Trump declared to a roaring crowd in Houston on Monday after insisting his opponents…
How Republicans Learned to Love Putin
Republican senators can scold Trump for lip syncing Vladimir Putin’s lies but their base won’t give a damn. MAGA…
Black Jesus Will Save Your Soul
An exploration of the late Rev. James Cone’s radical theology.
If Roseanne Barr was Puerto Rico
If Roseanne Barr died 4,645 times, death upon death; if she were lost like screams in a hurricane; like…
Black Pride in ‘Black Panther’
Was this the Promised Land? Black people partied on the escalator. I was going to my seat and asked…
Dystopian themes abound in popular culture. In a world wracked by climate change, war, mass migration and a growing gulf between the super-rich and everyone else, imagining the worst has become its own industry. But what might it feel like to live and work in a future society that has begun to heal a damaged planet even as people continue to be their messy, imperfect selves?
“Now I’m afraid,” she said. “I wasn’t before. Too privileged to feel fear.” The protest at Trump Tower was…
