Advertisements American exceptionalism was always a con job. The only surprise is how long it worked. In this week’s Globalists, Josh White and Mitchell Plitnick discuss why Donald Trump is the culmination of US politics, why Britain remains trapped in Washington’s orbit, and whether the left can reconcile antiracist andContinue Reading
On this 4th of July, as our nation works hard to erase the halting, insufficient progress we have made, as we lock people up for fleeing violence in which our country is complicit to varying degrees, as we lead the world to environmental catastrophe, as we, as a people, ignore the harm being done in our name within our borders and all around the planet, we should not be lighting off fireworks in celebration of war. We should not be reading from lofty, 18th century documents as if they have any relationship to the United States as it exists or has ever existed. We should be heeding the words of Frederick Douglass. To help us do that, here are those words. Continue Reading
Advertisements 238 years ago today, a country declared its independence. The country that was created on that day had already begun its campaign of genocide of the native people, was building its economy in large part on slavery and intended its vaunted “freedom” only for white, male land-owners, a veryContinue Reading
