Category: Politics
Why We Fight (Part One): The Uphill Battle
Despite months of protests and centuries of struggle for equal rights, many White Americans maintain an obstinate resistance to accepting the Black Lives Matter movement ... Read More
Defunding The Police: The Culture War Democrats Are Afraid To Fight
The problem with “defund the police” as a slogan isn’t it’s inaccuracy, lack of nuance, or failure to represent the true position of most liberals, ... Read More
A Man For This Season
The ground beneath us has shifted significantly in recent weeks, affecting how Americans view race, justice and the role of government in society, but one ... Read More
Why The Trump Show Won’t Get Picked Up
America is so easily distracted that it elected a television conman, but his reality-style Presidency won’t get picked up for a second season because America ... Read More
America’s Battle Fatigue
American doesn’t actually win wars anymore—not on foreign soil against enemy combatants, nor in the service of domestic social issues—we simply drift away out of ... Read More
The Resistance Needs A Better Brand
The very strength of the Democratic Party—a wonderfully diverse coalition of people and ideas—is precisely what makes it suck so badly at branding. By David ... Read More
These Are Not The Facts You’re Looking For
A new era of disinformation, ushered in by a powerful conservative media universe, has threatened democracy in ways the Framers never could have anticipated. By ... Read More
Do Black Lives Matter—To The Democratic Party?
Will The Black Lives Matter movement finally be embraced by the Democratic Party establishment, or just co-opted momentarily as an expedient political weapon to defeat ... Read More
We Need Amy Kennedy Now
Letter To The Editor The first thing that struck me about Amy Kennedy is her ability to listen intently, not getting ahead of herself with ... Read More
I Can’t Breathe
https://vimeo.com/424921842 Produced by Hopping Frog Studios, LLC for The Standard. Read More