On January 6th a determined mob from across the United States descended on Washington, D.C. They rumbled with police, overturned barricades, breached the perimeter of the United States Capitol, and smashed their way into the building itself – all while both houses were in session. Inside, the insurgents played cat and mouse with police and […]
Middle-Class War: A Visit to Staten Island’s Autonomous Zone
Transmission rates are on the rise again in New York City. Hospital beds are filling, the temperature is dropping, and most have accepted a renewed lockdown to be a foregone conclusion. But the talk of the town has been a humble pub on Staten Island’s East Shore pushing against the trend. As the transmission rate […]
Hard Crackers Editors on WBAI
On this week’s episode of WBAI radio’s Deadline NYC, our editors John Garvey and Mike Morgan sat down with veteran journalist Tom Robbins for a discussion of their early political development and the Hard Crackers project. The episode can be heard here. (Note: the Deadline segment begins after the 1:00 mark.) Thanks to Tom and […]
Thankful for President Trump: Thanksgiving with Stop the Steal
On Thanksgiving morning supporters of President Trump’s doomed reelection effort descended on the Loop neighborhood of Chicago to raise the battle cry “Stop the Steal!” The “steal” in this tortured locution is the purported Democratic Party theft of the November presidential election, chronicled in a convoluted conspiracy theory that one conservative federal judge recently compared […]
The Show Must Go On
“It’s so great that we are all together in one place,” a middle-aged white woman gushed, almost directly in my ear. “Trump was sent by God!” I had other theories, but she was right about one thing. Donald Trump’s “Great American Comeback Tour” had brought me and roughly a thousand other souls together, far too […]
In the Eye of the Storm: A Report from Kenosha
What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is. -Bright Eyes The night of the shooting, bands of armed white men dotted the landscape before we even arrived in Kenosha. Police roadblocks along I-94 barred easy access to the small Wisconsin city and forced us off the highway early, to hack it through […]