by Matthew Friedman | Aug 17, 2020 | Commentary, Essays, Politics
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate landed in social media with curious effect. Longtime Democrats, centrist liberals, and that fuzzy sliver of moderates who occupy the narrow space between the Democratic Party’s...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 30, 2020 | Essays
A right-wing extremist fired ten shots into a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Austin last weekend, killing Garrett Foster. The incident is eerily reminiscent of the El Paso shooting last year, the Tree of Life Massacre in Pittsburgh and, more than...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 20, 2020 | Commentary
Comedian and celebrity television host Nick Cannon interviewed Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin about his new book, and the conversation quickly turned to the latter’s well-documented antisemitism. Griffin brushed the charges aside on the grounds that Jews are not...
by Matthew Friedman | Jun 21, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
This one is going to sink him. This broadside hit below the waterline, and Trump going down! Reviewing The Room Where It Happened, due out Tuesday, The Guardian’s Lloyd Green opines “John Bolton’s near-600-page tome is the most damning written account by a Trump...
by Matthew Friedman | Jun 14, 2020 | Commentary, Politics
It was sometime between the night of May 28, when the 3rd Precinct station went up in flames in Minneapolis, and the police assault with tear-gas and truncheons on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square in Washington four days later that I began to see the posts and...
