Far Right

Disney’s reversal on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t an act of corporate consciousness — it was a strategic retreat forced by coordinated pressure. Joe Worthy ( Waging Nonviolence ) – The attempt to silence late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has backfired in a big way, with Disney/ABC now reversing the “indefinite suspension” it announced last week. This […]

Donald Trump

Cartoonish Trump is making America a Caricature, and I should Know

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Sometimes I dream — in the sense of a nightmare — about bringing my parents back to this all too strange world of ours to tell them about… yes, of course, Donald J. Trump. They died long before The Apprentice even made it onto TV early in this century, so — […]

Far Right

Christian Nationalism’s Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate

Matthew Boedy

Oakwood, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A concerning story out of Georgia offers a window into the rise and possible demise of an all-encompassing strategy of Christian Nationalism finding unheralded success in the Trump era. On July 10th federal regulators filed a complaint “seeking the seizure of Georgia lender First Liberty Building & […]

Bill of Rights

Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Gangster president Trump and his Justice Department lackeys are engaged in a coordinated cover-up of his entanglements with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by unleashing a blizzard of insults, lies, and worn-out conspiracy accusations to deflect criticism. So far this hasn’t worked. But the same authoritarian tactics that have failed […]

Artificial Intelligence

Grok’s MechaHitler Antisemitic Rant shows how Generative AI can be Weaponized

The Conversation

By James Foulds, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Phil Feldman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Shimei Pan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (The Conversation) – The AI chatbot Grok went on an antisemitic rant on July 8, 2025, posting memes, tropes and conspiracy theories used to denigrate Jewish people on the X platform. It […]

Conspiracy Theories

When Politics Leaves Reality Behind

Bahman Fozouni

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The traditional left–right political spectrum no longer captures the forces driving division in America today. That model works when we’re dealing with competing ideologies and when ideological disagreement is the primary driver of division in society. But today, we face something more destabilizing: a profound rupture in shared […]

Democracy

Trump rages to snuff out Democracy’s Candle: Will we Rage against the Dying of its Light?

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on the subject quite clear: mortality is a terrible idea. I’m opposed to it in general. (In wiser moments, I know that […]

censorship

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana: Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil

Note from Juan Cole: I used to write letters to totalitarian governments on behalf of Amnesty International complaining about their detention of political prisoners for mere thought crimes. One of the worst offenders was Communist Czechoslovakia, which did not even bother to reply. I could not have imagined in 1987 that in 2025 people in […]

Christan Nationalists

Secretive Evangelical D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

ProPublica

By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski ( ProPublica ) – For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left a scant paper trail. The archconservative evangelical pastor, who started a D.C. nonprofit a few years ago to shape national policy, does not file lobbying reports. His group does not […]