by Thomas Mills | Oct 5, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
Last week, I wrote that something major would need to happen to disrupt the trajectory of the US Senate race in North Carolina. This weekend, it did. Thom Tillis tested positive for COVID and Cal Cunningham got caught exchanging racy texts with a woman in California....
by Thomas Mills | Aug 7, 2020 | 2020 elections, Editor's Blog |
This year feels increasingly like 2006. Back then, the Republican Party was fighting off scandals, wars, botched responses to natural disasters, and numerous self-inflicted wounds. This year, the pandemic and the reckoning over race have replaced the wars and natural...
by Thomas Mills | Nov 17, 2017 | Editor's Blog |
The visceral and cathartic cry from women who have been sexually harassed and abused continued yesterday with news that Al Franken forcefully kissed and later groped a former model and radio personality on a USO tour in 2006. Franken immediately responded with an...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 22, 2015 | Editor's Blog, Race |
Great satire works because it’s true. Stephen Colbert mastered it in his parody of conservative journalists with his claim “I don’t see race.” Fox News and the Republican presidential candidates re-emphasized Colbert’s brilliance when they fell all over themselves...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 20, 2014 | News, Religion |
Some insights are timeless. Karl Marx spoke for the ages saying “history repeats itself first as tragedy, second as farce.” So it is with Billy Graham. The Reverend’s clownish son may have reinforced impressions of his father as a Falwell clone. In fact, Billy...
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