Tim Libretti
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United States
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Opinion: How to Deal with Christian Nationalists? Let them Secede and Tyrannize Over Themselves
If these hateful Christian nationalists want to secede and form their own fascist state to tyrannize over themselves, why don’t we let them? → Read More
Opinion: African Americans Continue To Lead Insurrections For Democracy In America
In the summer of 1800, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved blacksmith, planned a slave insurrection in Richmond Virginia. Information about the rebellion was leaked, and it was thwarted. Prosser and 25 of his followers were taken → Read More
Opinion: McConnell Denies Reality And Abandons Americans In Real Need
Watching the senate, under the callous and inhumane rule of Mitch McConnell, fail to respond sufficiently and urgently to the dire suffering and needs of out-of-work Americans, largely denying their reality, brought to mind a → Read More
Opinion: Trump Reveals Strong Connection Between Authoritarianism and Anti-Abortion Politics
Over the past four years, Americans have gotten a potent dose of autocracy, witnessing Trump’s repeated violations of basic democratic norms, climaxing in his still ongoing plot to overturn last November’s presidential election. And we need → Read More
Opinion: Why The Founders Could Not Have Devised A Trump-Proof Democracy
Writing in 1782, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine exclaimed, “We are now really another people.” What Paine meant, in part, was that the new republican form of government required a new and → Read More
Opinion: The Possibilities for Biden’s Vision to Overcome Trump’s Division
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned aspirationally on a vision of uniting a country many see as severely, if not hopelessly, divided. After all, while Biden amassed over 80 million votes, the most votes ever tallied by → Read More
Opinion: Can Progressives Harness "White Rage" to Defeat Trump?
Rage has, no doubt, been a powerful political force in U.S. history. Dr. Carolyn Anderson demonstrates this fact most fully and compellingly in her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, in which → Read More
Opinion: Trump even Defies Supreme Court in Inflicting His Hate on Transgender Americans
The American people, polls indicate, have not been buying the bill of goods Donald Trump has been selling in his strenuous attempts to represent himself as the “law and order” candidate. They seem to understand → Read More
Opinion: Trump “Scares the Hell” Out of the Working Class While Democrats Give Them Voice
Is Trump the 2020 candidate who best represents the American working class? Did the Democratic Party fail to encompass working-class interests, issues, and people at last week’s convention? What does the working class think? Washington Post columnist → Read More
Opinion: How Trump, Against Himself, is Making America Safe for Anti-Racism, Democracy
This unfortunate and hopefully soon-expiring moment in U.S. history, Donald Trump’s presidency, has been anything but subtle in summoning the worst energies, impulses, and dimensions embedded in the nation’s history and still animating contemporary culture → Read More
Opinion: Let Republicans Help Defeat Trump, but Don’t be Fooled
The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission of defeating both Trump this November as well as Trumpism, meaning they are seeking to → Read More
Opinion: Trans Lives Matter, Too: November 2020 Will be a Reckoning on Civil Rights for All
Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to deny transgender people → Read More
Opinion: Racist Contradictions in Defining Freedom in Trump’s America
Last May, the conservative group Michigan United for Liberty organized protests in the state capitol against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. While the group, composed of roughly 8,000 members, had already formalized its complaint against → Read More
Opinion: Biden Must Take Up Van Jones’ Challenge, Guidance for Overcoming White Liberalism
CNN political commentator Van Jones recently issued a stark challenge to, and indeed indictment of, supposedly well-meaning White America, speaking in the wake of the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and in → Read More
Opinion: Are We All in This Together? Not When Republicans Funnel Relief to Millionaires
We’re all in this together. Is anybody else tired of hearing this mantra? I mean, in many ways I love it both as an aspirational sentiment, encapsulating the vision of a cooperative, humane, and compassionate social way → Read More
Opinion: McConnell’s Opposition to Providing Relief to States Will Starve Americans
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently announced his opposition to any kind of relief packages for states, advising instead that states pursue the route of declaring bankruptcy. Since current federal law, for good reason, → Read More
Opinion: Coronavirus Questions Values of American Economy Itself, as well as Trump’s
When Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker tried to purchase the protective gear necessary for healthcare workers in his state, the problem wasn’t necessarily that the inventories of the equipment he sought didn’t exist. Rather, the obstacle → Read More
Opinion: Coronavirus Highlights Inhumanity and Inefficiency of For-Profit Economy
The economic culture in the United States still largely holds to the belief that private industry, guided by the pursuit of private interests and the profit motive, leads to the most efficient and effective economy. → Read More
Opinion: Coronavirus Can Teach Us the Value of a Democratic Economy Heading into November
Wise people always remind us to never let a good crisis go to waste. Wise people with evil inclinations have, of course, taken this sage advice to heart, often exploiting crises, sometimes even arguably manufacturing them, → Read More
Opinion: Decency and Empathy are Key Political Factors Helping Biden, Hurting Sanders
As primary election day, March 17, approaches in Illinois, I have been doing some canvassing for a candidate running to keep her seat as a state representative, Lindsey LaPointe. I have known Lindsey for a → Read More