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...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 30, 2021 | Commentary
I am not wearing an orange shirt today, like some kind of grinning Canadian politician, hoping that a photo-op will wash away my country’s sins. Today is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, a new statutory holiday meant to honor “lost...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 19, 2021 | Commentary, Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Met Gala dress blew-up the Internet last week. For a brief moment, the social- and conventional-media commentariat on the right and the left were able to agree on a matter of critical political import: The congresswoman’s Aurora...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 11, 2021 | Essays
My first memory of that day is of the sky. It was clear and bright, and as I walked along de Terrebonne Street to Concordia University’s Loyola campus, I marveled at the deepness of the blue. I could still see the sky outside the windows of the computer lab in the...
