A combat veteran says the right wing in American politics has been radicalized further than most Americans realize, and that voting out the Republicans won’t be enough. Adam G. House argues the country needs a public reckoning with white Christian supremacist violence, and that Americans should look to the abolitionists.
I spent a very muddy Sunday at this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival and came home thinking about a Neil Young and Crazy Horse reunion in 2012, Willie Nelson in New York at ninety-two, a few more Wilco shows than I should probably admit to, how much my kids’ music has influenced mine, and the dawning realization that some things just aren’t made for my demographic… and that I’m okay with it.
“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)
Nick Allison I’ve been on vacation for the past two months. It was only supposed to be one month when I planned it. In a country where paid vacation is perhaps the most coveted and least distributed benefit in our particular version of capitalism—doled out by corporate masters who have spent decades training us to…
In 2004, my mom wrote about what war costs—not just for those who fight, but for those who wait, worry, and live with the aftermath. Twenty-one years later, I’m sharing her words again, along with my reflections as a veteran, son, and father.
Adam Hinds For years, I’ve written across different formats and through different outlets. One of my favorites has always been The Chaos Section. I enjoy the freedom that writing brings. But I’ve always lacked focus. That changes now. A Decade in the Nonprofit World I’ve spent the past ten years working in and around nonprofit…
In the wealthiest country in human history, people are dying because they can’t afford insulin while billionaires buy elections. The ladder has no visible top and a functionally invisible bottom, and almost everyone is looking up at someone while looking down at someone else.
At the end of March, with the Iran war entering its second month and the casualty count already climbing, I attended the No Kings protest in Austin looking for veterans. I found plenty of them. After the piece ran at Slate I heard from several others who weren‘t at the protest but wanted to add…
The Supreme Court just made it easier for licensed therapists to tell queer kids that who they are is a disorder that needs fixing. Cynthia Tarana has some firsthand experience with what environment actually does to a person’s sexuality.
W.P. Kinsella wrote that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. It may be one constant, but I’m reluctantly starting to think it’s not the only one.
We can afford a billion dollars a day for another war in the Middle East, but making sure a working mother can take her sick kid to the doctor? That’s where we draw the line on fiscal responsibility.
I came across a Beto O’Rourke post featuring a friend of mine at a voter registration event in Austin, someone who had never once mentioned they were doing that work. It made me think about ego, activism, and what it really means to show up.
If you can count on anything in aMERICA, it’s that we will buy the lie, or at the very least, “purchase a smidge of truth.” From Hilly Kristal and CBGB to Luigi Mangione and Muhammad Ali, Cynthia Tarana moves through capitalism, healthcare, and the ever-beating war drum—and wonders why we keep choosing Empire over each other.
The Trump administration wants $50 billion to fund an unauthorized war in Iran. Democrats have one tool left to stop it, and some of them are thinking about giving it away.
Beto O’Rourke recently sat down with Jeremy Wallace on Texas Take, the political podcast from the Houston Chronicle, for a wide-ranging conversation about the 2026 midterm elections, executive power, and the future of American democracy. The full interview runs close to an hour. What follows is a single uninterrupted excerpt in which O’Rourke lays out what he believes…
