Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect and a freelance writer. Follow her on Twitter: @addiestan.
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Views Monday, August 05, 2019 White Nationalist Does Massacre. Now the Gaslighting Begins In the hours following the massacre of Walmart shoppers, targeted for being Latinx, by a killer who authored a white male nationalist screed, the right-wing disinformation machine cranked into gear. The attack was actually a deep-state “false flag” operation, tweeted conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Trump’s Authoritarian Grip Tightens In every issue where America has made progress over the course of the last decade, the Trump administration is rolling back those gains with alarming speed. While it’s tempting to think of this regression as a return to an earlier time—a dirtier, more racist, more sexist, less compassionate America... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 15, 2017 White Supremacist Chaos In Charlottesville Is Just the Beginning Arriving in downtown Charlottesville about a half-hour before the scheduled noon start time for the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, it was clear that violence was inevitable. I rode past a throng of men with semiautomatic rifles slung across their backs, and a group of left-wing... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 29, 2017 Very Dangerous Times: Press Attacked by Authoritarian White House If there were ever a doubt that a traitor now occupies the Oval Office, Tuesday’s assault on the exercise of a free press, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, should dispel it. This particular attack was prompted by a screw-up at CNN, a favorite punching-bag for President Donald J... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 26, 2017 CPAC Dispatch: A Carefully Constructed Attack on the Media WASHINGTON, DC — On Wednesday, Feb. 22, a young man boarded the complimentary shuttle at Washington, DC’s Union Station headed for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) taking place in suburban Maryland at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. Talking excitedly to his... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 08, 2017 Warren Silenced: The Patriarchy Strikes Back There’s nothing the patriarchy hates more than a woman who’s got a point to make, especially a powerful point to make against the man the white patriarchy means to install in the highest law-enforcement office in the land. And the patriarchy really is not down with the fact that the point was... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 27, 2011 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. "The anti-war Republican," people say, as if that's good enough. Read more |