exile in happy valley

 Fred Hampton had a dream. It was a little more militant than Doctor King's, but no less ambitious. The young chairman of the Illinois c...

 There are few things that strike terror in the dark hearts of god fearing, beef eating, Republicans like the scourge of the Squad. Transgen...

 January 6 was a day that will live on in infamy, an unparalleled assault on the precious vital organs of our exceptional democracy that thi...

 Rarely a week seemed to go by during the Trump years when the sky wasn't falling. The cable news already has a tendency of covering eve...

 There is a narrative commonly held by observers in the west that the Afghans are a people defined by perpetual warfare. Like many stereotyp...

 2016 was a strange fucking year to be an antiwar voter. It was the first open Democratic primary since the Iraq War without a clear peace c...

 It's been twenty years since 9/11 but it feels more like twenty years of 9/11. That's probably because an entire industrial complex...