If you’re looking for an antidote to the despair created by the increasing ugliness of this year’s election campaigns, the misogyny and racism unleashed by Donald Trump and the sense that progressive agendas for minorities and women have stalled—you need look no further than the 2016 Olympic Games.
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This piece first appeared at TomDispatch.com.
It’s not every day that Republicans publish an open letter announcing that their presidential candidate is unfit for office. But lately this sort of thing has been happening more and more frequently. The most recent example: we just heard from 50 representatives of the national security apparatus, men—and a few women—who served under Republican presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. All of them are very worried about Donald Trump. Читать дальше...