by Matthew Friedman | Oct 8, 2021 | Essays, Politics
The man with the megaphone was getting a response. Standing in front of the Wells Fargo Bank at the corner of Broad and Bank in Newark – a Wachovia branch until the subprime mortgage crisis at the beginning of the Great Recession – he was calling out to everyone in...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 3, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
A white man wearing a Stars and Stripes bandana threw a Molotov cocktail into the Travis County Democratic Party headquarters in Austin, TX on Wednesday, and then casually walked away. The bomb did not ignite, and damage was minor. You might not have heard about the...