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“Make America Straight Again”? Anti-LGBT Sentiment in the GOP Platform
The new Republican platform has been described as "the most anti-LGBT platform in the party's 162-year history."
RNC Protesters “Wall Off Trump” and Confront Police Violence
Protesters erected a "wall" with banners outside the RNC, and kept systemic police violence in the spotlight even as a sea of police flooded the streets around them.
Trumpism Is a Scam — You’re Actually Voting for Mike Pence
All Trump cares about is inflating his personal brand, and getting elected president is the best way to do that.
What’s on Display in Cleveland? The Republican Id
The triumph of Trump has demonstrated the cost of the devil's bargain.
Fever Dreams as Cleveland Steams: RNC Night Three, Featuring Pence
Mike Pence, terrifyingly, came off as a mainstream politician, despite his extreme racism and misogyny.
Henry A. Giroux: Trump and the Fascistization of the United States (Part One)
Scholar Henry Giroux tells Paul Jay that Donald Trump is not an eccentric populist, but the representative of a neofascist.
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Mike Pence May Be a Friend to Trump, but He’s No Friend to Workers
Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence should have workers worried.
CNN’s Revolving Door of Political Hackery
CNN's hiring of Trump's campaign manager was just another example of cable networks hiring lobbyists and hacks.
They Really Did It: Trump Nominated on Night Two
William Rivers Pitt of Truthout: Last night's crowd was about as enthusiastic as old spaghetti, but nevertheless, they fa-chrissakes did it. They nominated Trump.
Henry A. Giroux on Violence, Neoliberalism and the Hallucinatory Anti-Politics of the Trump Era
Cultural critic Henry Giroux explains how violence seeped from the United States' background into the foreground of our psychology.