We've elected the stupidest people to solve the world's most complex issues.

What Is America, and for Whom? Two competing forms of nationalism: A pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations – or a white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies? American society has always been divided over what this country should strive to be.

But to insist that America – its history, identity, and political tradition – is solely defined by these continuities of racist authoritarianism and white patriarchal domination is equally ahistorical. From the start, the American experiment was also shaped by an egalitarian promise.

There is a willfully ignorant, self-exculpatory exceptionalism that mythologizes U.S. history into an easily digestible, triumphant tale. It is as ahistorical as it is politically useless. Worse than useless, actually, as it engenders a self-satisfied and dangerously unimaginative complacency.

What the MAGA government is doing does not constitute some accidental departure from an otherwise heroic democratic tradition. America has a long tradition of racial violence perpetrated and condoned by the state, of state authoritarianism in service of a white supremacist vision.

The reality of U.S. history, society, and politics has never been aligned with such ideals, of course. As a result, racism and other forms of bigotry have, certainly in the recent past, been constantly declared “un-American” while also continuously acting as organizing principles of American life.

We've had free bus service in Iowa City for about two years and it has been great. Also often overlooked in this discussion is the cost of collecting the fare. For our system only about 60% of fare revenue was available for operating expenses, the rest went into the cost of collecting the fare.

Free Buses in Chapel Hill were incredible. I could park far away from campus, get to my office, go grab lunch, and then get back to my car. The buses alleviate the traffic which means buses running frequently and on time.

Just FYI, Tubi is a Murdoch/FOX Corp. streaming channel. (Some people are staunch boycotters of Murdoch-owned companies, but word hasn’t really gotten out that Tubi is one of them.)

For a bunch of guys obsessed with the Roman Empire they sure as fuck don't know who was all part of the Roman Empire.