Trump Is No Stalin, But the MAGAs Are Stalinists

Trump is not merely a symptom; he is a catalyst of the Party’s transformation into a movement devoted solely to getting and keeping power by any means, including mob violence.

Everyone Is Revealing Who They Really Are

Everyone’s masks are coming off, and we can see them for who they really are.

The Counterfeit Wildebeest: An American Fable

In a distant era when there was still ice in Antarctica and wild animals in Africa, a lazy young lion named Tad came up with what he thought was a clever way to save work when hunting wildebeest. “I will dress up in wildebeest hide and tell them all the lions have run away,” he

We Americans Glimpsed the Promised Land of Brotherhood. We Chose the Wilderness of Hatred.

It is a tragic truth about human nature that hatred feeds on itself, like an out-of-control wildfire, while love and fellowship need to be carefully nurtured, like a flickering candle flame.

The Witch Hunt: An American Fable

In a long-ago topsy-turvy time when a Black man had somehow gotten himself elected president of America, an unemployed steelworker and his wife lived in a run-down apartment deep in the Rustbelt, together with the man’s two children, Hansley and Gretlette. Now the wife was a selfish bitch and hated how her out-of-work husband kept

Joaquin and the Beanstalk and la migra: An American Fable

Back when America was Great Again, a caravan of bad hombres plotted to invade the heaven-blessed land. Among the desperadoes was a woman named Maria and her son Joaquin, who had the unmitigated gall to try to get to El Norte to escape a gang of rapists and cutthroats whose fathers had been specially trained

Dreadilocks and the Three White Bears: An American Fable

The cops heard the gunshots and came running, and they were loaded for bear. But when they saw Papa Bear, they lowered their weapons and relaxed, for he was White and enjoyed the Constitutional right to bear arms and to be an armed bear.

Undocumented Immigrants and American Public Safety

It turned out that dozens of millions of red-blooded Americans have a bottomless appetite for the Very Stable Genius’s filthy, racist lies, which they have gleefully repeated and amplified.

The Paradoxical Patriot’s American Thanksgiving

When you write that “all men are created equal,” the words have a power and an inevitable logic that leads to human liberation, even if that can only be achieved after centuries of struggle.

Phantasmagorical Beliefs a Deadly Real-World Threat To America

I continue to believe that mockery is a brilliant weapon, both offensive and defensive, to use against murderous racists, because their beliefs are absurd; but one must be realistic about its limits.