‘You think our country’s so innocent?’

Adam Shatz: Polarised States of America, 1 December 2022

... the Trumpists in Congress feel emboldened by victory, and are already throwing up challengers to Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House. While McCarthy in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate might like nothing better than to dissociate themselves from Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and other ...

Prejudice Rules

LRB Contributors: After Roe v. Wade, 21 July 2022

... to my mind – ‘had sex’.We might write of reproductive freedom, of justice, what Astra Taylor writes of democracy: it may not exist, but ‘we’ll miss it when it’s gone.’ Well, some will (if the polls are right – but also, fuck polls); some won’t. This will be fractiously, violently contended in coming years, as it has been for ...