If you can understand these tortured, indecipherable examples of "transgressive" academic writing, you're driving too close.

Her socially progressive platform played well with the base on the liberal coasts but drowned in the Great Lakes

Yes, the civil-rights drama isn't quite fair to Johnson. But the film's importance goes well beyond that issue

I have never equated doubts about the war with treason. The only "fifth column" in America is that subset of the left that hates this country and loves its enemies.

The Big Lie, like Trump's birtherism, reflects his refusal to accept that people of color are legitimate Americans

Parag Khanna on contemporary superpowers, "Bollystan" and the decline of Russia.

The brash billionaire and the blunt Brooklynite are running very different campaigns -- but there's a common thread

The government has long claimed that the Bin Laden raid was an intelligence windfall. Now it's playing defense.

Release of the FISA documents undercuts the "deep state" theory — but not for Trump or his Twitter followers

There's a pervasive sense on the left that, win or lose this year, America's getting more liberal. Don't be so sure

Nadine Strossen on the role of the ACLU and the current threats to our civil liberties.

Despite the South's explicit racism, the civil rights fight brought hope. It's hard to feel that way now

"Manufacturing Consent" predicted how a privately owned free press could function as a propaganda system

Redoubtable sophist Stanley Fish rushes to the aid of professors who attacked America after 9/11, as though they're in any danger in left-wing academia.

Noam Chomsky -- Class War: The Attack on Working People