Tag Archives: Steve Russell

Steve Russell :
Calculating our losses: Hugh Masekela, Rosie the Riveter, Ursula K. Le Guin

Some days, everything you need to know from the newspaper is in the obituaries. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2018 Some days, everything you need to know from the newspaper is in the obituaries. So … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Is gun violence our manifest destiny?

The last war on U.S. soil ended in 1848, unless you count the NRA v. common sense. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | December 11, 2017 Steve Russell wrote the following article for The Rag Blog as a … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Donald Trump and the great
transgender menace

This president picks on the least powerful because all that matters for him is winning. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | November 15, 2017 Why attack the powerless, beyond the exhilaration of winning? I don’t even get the … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Truth in an age of post-factual politics

Since the arrival of The Donald, U.S. politics is a fact-free zone. The truth simply no longer matters. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | October 16, 2017 Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) was not happy being questioned by a … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Making peace between Rocket Man
and the Dotard

Solving the North Korea problem requires our best understanding of everybody’s needs. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | September 27, 2017 Two grown men are publicly calling each other names, a childish spat that rises from annoying to … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
The downside to impeaching Trump

Rogue’s Gallery: We should all look at the presidential bullpen in constitutional order. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | June 18, 2017 The investigations are scattered among the House, the Senate, and now a special prosecutor, and the … Continue reading

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Thorne Dreyer :
RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Carl Davidson, Doug Rossinow and Julia Mickenberg, Alice Embree and Jim Franklin, Geronimo Son and Steve Russell, Harry Hurt III, Jesse Sublett, and Jim Hightower

We broadcast live from the Rag Reunion, pay tribute to Tom Hayden, visit with the armadillo man, learn about the Standing Rock protests, interview Trump’s most hated biographer, enjoy some live music, and talk us some populism. Interviews by Thorne … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Dakota Access Pipeline: Legal encounters of
the third kind

The Indians do not claim their right to safe drinking water as U.S. citizens, but as human beings. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | September 28, 2016 Listen to the podcast of Thorne Dreyer’s September 23, 2016 Rag … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Two wars for the American West

The older war is known collectively as the Indian wars. The second is a continuation of the bloodiest conflict in the history of the nation, the Civil War. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | September 5, 2016 Two … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
METRO | Life in the Soviet Republic of Sun City

A friend had this priceless comment: ‘It’s just like Cuba, only with money.’ By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | May 17, 2016 SUN CITY, Texas — We just had a crime wave here in Sun City, Texas, and … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Terror in Trumpland: The Donald names his foreign policy team

The major complaint in U.S. policy shops is that Trump has picked backbenchers who do not point to any coherent policy orientation. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | May 3 , 2016 In 2016, what was old has … Continue reading

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Steve Russell :
Antonin Scalia was a Federalist, sort of,

and therefore would not approve of President Obama making a lame duck appointment to replace him, right? Wrong. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2016 Once upon a time, in the late 20th and early 21st … Continue reading

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