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How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.

Reader Comments: Mainstream Press Covers DSA and Elections; The ‘Red Scare’: Then and Now; Todd Blanche and The Art of the Steal; Dr. Fauci;; New Howard Zinn Biography; Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes Against War, Genocide

The persecution of communists and American radicals in the postwar era was not solely – and often not even primarily – a government operation. It was a collective endeavor.

While Rubio has spent much of his political career fighting the Cuban regime, it is almost unbelievable that even he would lend his name to such a report filled with lies and threats against American citizens.

In the early 1900s, the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order fought for multiracial democracy and Yiddish culture, building solidarity across ethnic and racial lines — until it was destroyed by the Red Scare. Review of From Popular Front to Cold War

Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the “enemy within” and has recently promoted the idea that “democratic socialism must be criminalized.” On top of current $1.1 trillion, the Pentagon has requested a separate $350 billion package.

JFK’s Profile in Cowardice (1961), Marvin Gaye’s Greatest Hit (1971), George Washington, Frustrated Enslaver (1796), Can’t Repeal an Anti-Racist Law? Then Just Try to Forget About It. (1951) Blacklist Victim Lives to Laugh at Witchhunters (1956)

Reader Comments: One Tyrant Down, More to Follow?; Iran Negotiations Led by Real Estate Magnates; No Longer Separation of Church and State, President Now Leading Global Theological Luminary; 7 Democrats Vote to Kill Bill Blocking Arms Sales to Israel

Is this a prelude to asking for the names of all Black people on campus who could have experienced or witnessed racism in the workplace? Or all women, queers, or trans people? Probably not – that would be woke DEI and critical race theory stuff.

Reader Comments: More War, More Cuts to Social Safety Net; On the "Left" Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing the Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power; Teaching Antifascist History...