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- Slavery Lasted Until Pearl Harbor http://weeklysift.com/2014/03/31/slavery-lasted-until-pearl-harbor/ 3 comments
- The Distress of The Privileged http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privileged/ 9 comments
- Trump’s long-term effect on American democracy: How worried should we be? https://weeklysift.com/2018/04/09/trumps-long-term-effect-on-american-democracy-how-worried-should-we-be/ 12 comments politics
- A Short History of White Racism in the Two-Party System https://weeklysift.com/2012/12/03/a-short-history-of-white-racism-in-the-two-party-system/ 2 comments moderatepolitics
- Why Bernie Backed Hillary https://weeklysift.com/2016/08/01/why-bernie-backed-hillary/ 17 comments politics
- Trump is an opportunistic infection: For decades, the GOP has been killing off its demagogue-detecting and bullshit-rejecting antibodies. Now it’s helpless. http://weeklysift.com/2016/02/29/trump-is-an-opportunistic-infection/ 12 comments politics
- Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party http://weeklysift.com/2014/08/11/not-a-tea-party-a-confederate-party/?story=1 73 comments politics
- 7 Liberal Lessons of Ebola; Ebola is making people afraid, and pushing them towards the party whose central narrative is about fear and anger: the Republicans. http://weeklysift.com/2014/10/20/7-liberal-lessons-of-ebola/ 3 comments politics
- Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party | "Modern conservatives who attribute their views to the Founders are usually unknowingly relying on Calhoun’s false image of the Founders, which was passed down through Davis and from there spread widely in Confederate folklore." http://weeklysift.com/2014/08/11/not-a-tea-party-a-confederate-party/ 467 comments politics
- Republicans seem to be making no effort at all to speak to the majority of Americans or to offer evidence that might convince a swing voter. They are talking to their base, which is probably about a third of the country. You can't win elections with 33% of the vote. http://weeklysift.com/2013/05/13/benghazi-hearings-congress-as-reality-tv/ 9 comments politics
- It's hard to see how the people who invent and popularize Creationist arguments can be anything other than conmen who know better. Scientists don't know how to deal with that. The whole culture of science is based on arguing in good faith and assuming that your opponent is doing the same. http://weeklysift.com/2013/02/18/evolutioncreation-for-non-eggheads/ 131 comments politics
- Privileged Distress- an excellent analysis of why conservatives feel oppressed in the issue of gay marriage http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privileged/ 6 comments politics
- One Word Turns the Tea Party Around http://weeklysift.com/2011/08/15/one-word-turns-the-tea-party-around/ 3 comments politics
- Six True Things Politicians Can't Say http://weeklysift.com/2011/09/12/six-true-things-politicians-cant-say/ 239 comments politics
- Why I am not a Libertarian http://weeklysift.com/2011/08/22/why-i-am-not-a-libertarian/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Why this dude isn't a Libertarian any more... http://weeklysift.com/2011/08/22/why-i-am-not-a-libertarian/ 541 comments politics
- Meet ALEC. How did those new conservative governors all suddenly come up with the same agenda? By using the model laws that the corporations of the American Legislative Executive Council wrote. Now those model laws have all been leaked. http://weeklysift.com/2011/07/18/meet-alec-2/ 4 comments politics