Author: Thom Hartmann

The abortion battle is not just about religion. We are also watching the last ages of White Supremacy, and it is scaring the hell out of White people who have bought into the racist belief that “others” are fundamentally different and inferior. This firestorm around abortion is another dimension of the White freak-out about the browning of America that stretches from the days of slavery through 19th century “scientific racism” to Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve:,America is no longer all-White or all-under-White-control. And the White Supremacists are bound and determined to do something about it. For example, a...

Some say the Republican Party has gone nuts. In reality, they have simply reached the endpoint toward which they have been moving for 62 years: Fascism. Republican politicians since Barry Goldwater’s 1960 campaign have trash-talked “big government” in the United States. Like Reagan’s assertions that cutting taxes on rich people would “trickle down” benefits to poor people, or his claim that destroying labor unions would increase take-home pay for working people, this one’s just another lie. Since the 1980s, in fact, the GOP has been the ultimate “big government” party. And now we are learning that Republicans in Congress...

Politico reported that the Supreme Court has already voted to strike down Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, and possibly even Griswold v Connecticut. The decision is in draft form, but expected to be released this summer. The GOP first set this as a goal in 1981 with the election of Ronald Reagan who, prior to cutting a cynical deal with Jerry Falwell for church help in the 1980 election, had signed the most liberal abortion law in the nation as California governor. Now it appears their 41-year campaign has reached its fruition. This is the first...

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.” — Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale If you are the family of a 12-year-old girl in Texas who has been raped and impregnated, or the husband of a 50-year-old Oklahoma woman who is at higher risk of death from pregnancy after a failure of birth control, your only truly safe option right now is to move to Canada. That is because individual states in the U.S. generally enforce each other’s court...