Alex Pagliuca

NPR recently reposted a piece from May that accompanied a segment of All Things Considered. It’s a piece in what has become a genre in our news. It concerns people refusing to date outside of their personal political affinities. For a number of years now, we’ve been seeing these pieces with some reg

I think what sticks in my craw about the “political violence is unacceptable” declarations is that it’s basically just a defense of a mythological history that never happened. Political violence, and most especially what we now consider right wing political violence, has always been acceptable. Ther

The March for Medicare for All is an organization attempting to organize marches in cities across the country, in support of Medicare for All. Sounds good, right? Overall, not a terrible idea. A few weeks ago though, a chapter in Indiana caught holy hell when they posted the speakers they were plann

Today marks two years since white supremacists descended on a small city in Virginia in an attempt to flex their muscle and demonstrate they could inflict their will to spread fear and intimidation. The prior night set the tone, with their torchlight march and attack on students, Charlottesville res