Traci Trace

Election Day is finally upon us. As you may have heard, it's the most consequential election since the last most consequential election. But what's really at stake? Does it matter which centrist, corporate-friendly party comes out on top? Is voting even worth your time a... Read more

With a narrow victory over the odious Jair Bolsonaro in yesterday's presidential election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Brazil joined Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile on a growing group of Latin American nations who have elected leftist heads of state. Can the rest of ... Read more

The election is nearly here. How can we tell? The eruption of voter intimidation, bigotry, and lying. Abe and Traci survey the damage. Read more

The mid-term elections are just a few weeks away -- and predictably, things are getting dumb. But this time around, the nation is beset by existential crises, and the citizenry are less equipped to tell truth from falsehood than they have in decades. Traci and Abe take y... Read more

This Monday, Oct. 10, marked the observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day. Last week, the president pardoned people locked up for federal marijuana possession. What connects these two events? They're both part of a growing movement to acknowledge, and ultimately transcend, ... Read more

In a recent report, the Congressional Budget Office has found that the distribution of household is more skewed -- in favor of the ultra-wealthy, of course -- than it has ever been in the history of the Republic. A quick historical tour of similar periods of inequality s... Read more

Apparently unsatisfied with voter suppression, forced childbirth, gerrymandering, book-banning and insurrection, American conservatism is turning its sights on a familiar target: Education, specifically academic freedom at colleges and universities. Of course they are --... Read more

What's old, it has often been observed, eventually becomes new again. In the United States, this encompasses everything from music to cuisine to fashion -- and, from time to time, the use of people of color as political props by racist Southern politicians. Traci and Abe... Read more