Dispatches And Notes

April 2022

March 2022

There's (multi) levels (marketing) to this shit

From the rise of the DeVos family to the crypto craze, MLM is everywhere in conservative politics

Mar 11, 2022 • 

John Knefel

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February 2022

This doesn't need to be a new Cold War

NATO has found new purpose. US media declares a new Cold War. It doesn't have to be this way.

Feb 24, 2022 • 

John Knefel

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Taking Stock

Congress may soon limit or ban stock trading. But there's a deeper conflict.

Feb 10, 2022 • 

John Knefel

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January 2022

Biden Berns Out

I am once again reminding you Biden is not a transformational figure

Jan 20, 2022 • 

John Knefel

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(C)ritical (R)ed (T)heory

What the latest anti-Black ideology shares with its predecessors

Jan 19, 2022 • 

John Knefel

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Not us, them

When we cast climate change as a collective failure, we obscure the real culprit: capitalism

Jan 4, 2022 • 

John Knefel

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December 2021

Reasonable Fears

A secretive, anti-ISIS US military unit justified killing scores of civilians as "self defense." They might have just as easily said they were Standing…

Dec 21, 2021 • 

John Knefel

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Democracy dies in markets

It's popular to worry about the state of US democracy. To address it, we need to talk about capitalism.

Dec 14, 2021 • 

John Knefel

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The other abortion battle

The right has used courts and state legislatures to curtail abortion access. Decades of violence were instrumental in achieving these legal victories.

Dec 7, 2021 • 

John Knefel

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These Violent Delights

Conservatives fetishize violence. Liberals fetishize non-violence. What could go wrong?

Dec 1, 2021 • 

John Knefel

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