To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, April 27, 2025

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Affirmative Action Isn’t Only For Republicans

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Every day since President Joe Biden reiterated his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, conservatives have reacted with the most predictable jeers and complaints. We’ve heard all these tiresome whines so many times before. But for some strange reason, the right-wing worries about “reverse discrimination,” tokenism and lack of qualifications only apply to candidates, and then only when those minority candidates are Democrats. When former President George H.W. Bush […]

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Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.