Category: Culture

Artists Rally for Equality and Inclusion in Tennessee
by WS Editors | Mar 8, 2023 | CultureANNOUNCING LOVE RISING Featuring Allison Russell, Amanda Shires, Brittany Howard, Brothers Osborne, Hayley Williams, Hozier, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jason Isbell, Joy Oladokun, Julien Baker, Maren Morris, Mya Byrne, Sheryl Crow, The Rainbow Coalition Band, Yola and more TBA March 20 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN Presented by Live Nation A Benefit Concert for Tennessee […]

Power Concedes Nothing—How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections
by Peter Olney | Aug 31, 2022 | BooksMy wife stood aghast as I rapped on the passenger-side window of the late model sedan exiting a driveway in Salem, New Hampshire, in the fall of 2016. The car stopped, and a woman rolled down her window and listened patiently to my pitch on why she should vote for Hillary Clinton for president. As […]

Inexplicable Verité: The Lessons of Trump’s Unknown First TV Project
by Hugh Taylor | May 3, 2022 | TelevisionIs it still acceptable to be fixated on Donald Trump’s iron grip on millions of Americans? While most people seem to have moved on, I’d argue that getting to a true understanding of his appeal is still of vital interest. Indeed, people’s lives may depend on it. Election officials continue to receive death threats for […]

Architecture of the Right: Ventures in Digital Media
by | Apr 28, 2022 | MediaIn the wake of Republican losses in 2020, a cast of mega-rich financiers, senior figures in the Trump administration, high-ranking NSA and Pentagon intelligence officials, Wall Street pitchmen and leading Trump campaign donors began to piece together a new global disinformation apparatus intended to promote the political project of the far right. The twin focal […]

Remembering Ramsey Clark
by Mark Green | May 1, 2021 | Culture, PoliticsRamsey Clark, former attorney general under Lyndon Baines Johnson and progressive civil rights attorney who ran twice for U.S. Senate from New York, died at 93 in his Manhattan home on April 9, 2021. Mark Green—on the staff of both the 1974 and 1976 campaigns—recalls the experience of trying to combine Clark’s principles with New […]
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