Team of Rivals or Not?
Posted by Richard Romine and Paul Hesman. Written by Chris Heges. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals captured one of the great paradoxes of American political leadership: Abraham Lincoln deliberately…
On “White” Jesus
Written by Jim Palmer (Posted elsewhere by Richard Romine) "That picture of Jesus is laughable. The soft-focus white man with manicured hair, glowing skin, and a baby lamb tucked gently…
I Read the Right-Wing Women’s Magazine Sex Issue so You Don’t Have To
Written by Amanda Marcotte The magazine has a long, ugly history of employing misinformation to scare women out of using contraception, mostly by failing to mention the incredibly high risks of…
Inspection- Yes, the Republican Party is Racist
This was a hard decision for me to make. I don't know what's in your mind. You don't know what's in mine. I would never declare all Republicans are…
Religion: The good, the bad and the ugly
Let’s be precise: the absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence. But when a figure is described as confronting the greatest empire of the Late Bronze Age, unleashing…