If this U.S. is to survive Trump, and not sink further into a morass of fascist horrors, it can only succeed if there is a deliberate, intentional recourse to reshaping our popular culture in the

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York which is generally recognized as the critical inflexion point in the launching of the “gay liberation revolution” which

A fascinating exercise it has been of the self-immolation of Republican members of the House Oversight Committee in its hearing with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen yesterday. These overwhelmingly

“This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States.” –

This week it is not the Russians, or Trump and the National Enquirer that a new, heavily-researched expose in the Washington Post has brought front and center as guilty parties in the would-be

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The fact it was Obama, and not the other guy, who suffered stitches from last weekend’s pick-up basketball game, is almost Shakespearean in its portent. Of course the much-touted so-called