Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger | Rebecca Solnit
pictureEverything has gone wrong, and everyone is doomed. This is perhaps the greatest and most unrecognized truth of life right now in the United States and much of the rest of the world. The pandemic, eight years of the Trump administration, the distortions, confusion and corruption spread by Silicon Valley, and other looming threats, including […]
The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement | Rebecca Solnit
TU.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas argued in a case last week regarding access to the abortion drug mifepristone that the Comstock Act, named after 19th century anti-vice activist Anthony Comstock, was quoted. Even without knowing who Anthony Comstock was or what his law did, he might not have worried all that […]