America Is Seeing The Decimation Of Black Political Power by Nikole Hannah-Jones

It has been dismaying to watch the Supreme Court’s eager destruction of all the progress towards genuine equality that started in the Civil Rights Era. Before donning his fanciest robe, John Roberts made a career out of despising the Civil Rights Acts of the nineteen-sixties, and he’s been able to transform that contempt into jurisprudence through perverse interpretations of the law by the institution that has the final say on the matter. Writing for The New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones combines astute historical evaluation with candid assessments of the obvious motives of all involved to properly call out the cruel bigotry that defines this sad moment.

A tale of two media women by Marisa Kabas

Marisa Kabas, who currently works as an entirely independent reporter, crossed paths with current agent of media destruction Bari Weiss years ago. The latest savaging of one of the country’s most storied journalism outlets prompts Kabas to consider the divergent paths she and Weiss took from relatively similar beginnings. In doing so, Kabas exposes precisely how our most important systems are currently tilted in favor of those whose basic morals are perpetually for sale. This piece is published at Kabas’s own site, The Handbasket.

Trump Clears Way for Corporate Tax Dodge Hidden in the Fine Print by Jesse Drucker and Dylan Freedman

For anyone informed person thinking logically, there was never any doubt as to who the buffoon currently occupying the White House would serve when the levers of power were turned over fully to him. He swindled huge subsets of the U.S. populace into believing he would help the working man when the obvious goal was to assist obscenely wealthy people in the contemptuous act of compounding their obscenity. Reporting for The New York Times, Jesse Drucker and Dylan Freedman explain the colossal tax cheat that has been supercharged for corporations that need no helping hand.