Timeline: Trump, Jan 6 Afternoon
Donald Trump's clearest misbehavior came on the afternoon of January 6, 2023, when he watched his followers attack the United States Capitol for nearly three hours before he told them to go home. An infographic ....
Author: bklinger
Make Contempt for Democracy Uncool Again
For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. -Thomas Paine, Common Sense Trump is marching towards the ....
On the Brink of National Suicide?
Photo: flag amidst flames, from USA Today. Are you alarmed? You should be. NPR keeps interviewing Republicans debating about the presidential primary. Objections to Trump run along the lines of “he has an obnoxious personality” ....
Four Slow News Years
[Image: A Scholar in his Study (detail), by Thomas Wyck.] Since I started Slow News in January 2020, we've had a pandemic, an attempted coup by the president against the government, a giant war in ....
Another Judgement Against Lies of Team Trump
Another chapter of Team Trump's election lies was in the news with the start of jury deliberations in a defamation trial against Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. That means Mr. Giuliani sat through the entire case ....
Fighting Terror With Terror
“terror, noun… 2: violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion, especially: violent or destructive acts (such as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or ....
Israel and Palestine: The Dialectic of Death
Arsonist Rewarded with Gift of House He Set on Fire In January, 2001, Israel and the Palestinian Authority met in Taba, Egypt, to hammer out a final agreement to end the century-long conflict between Jews ....
Infographic: Israel/Palestine Since the Peace Treaty
In 1993 Israel and representatives of the Palestinians signed the Declaration of Principles, commonly called the Oslo Accord, in which both sides agreed to peacefully settle the Israel/Palestine conflict. Since then, the region has continued ....
Israel/Palestine: The Attack
1. Parable of Israel and Palestine A man named Sky is on the second floor of a burning building. He opens a window and jumps out to escape the flames. He lands on and knocks ....
Greatest Rock Cover of All Time?
Amy Shafer Gets Me Listening to Summertime Again “It’s basically a brand new piece of music. It is no longer, it is no longer George Gershwin. This is Janis Joplin, and whoever’s playing along with ....