I am an American. These essays examine what has been done to the constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, who paid for it, why the belief that history corrects such reversals by itself will not hold, and how journalism turned a presidency into psychodrama.
In 2017, Pew found 74 per cent of Trump coverage framed around the man and 26 per cent around policy. A hundred days into the Iran war, with Brent at US$107 and thousands dead, the headline event remained his temper.
Read the essay: The President Lashes Out, and the US Government DisappearsIn 1896 Louisiana had 130,334 Black men registered to vote. By 1904 it had 1,342. Congress had repealed nothing, and no law mentioned race. The same operation is running now.
Read the essay: Corporate Money Built This US Supreme Court to End Equal TreatmentThe Fourteenth Amendment was a refounding, and it held for about thirty years. The belief that history bends toward justice is a theological inheritance in secular dress.
Read the essay: Refounding Must Never Finish