Branko Marcetic

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

As markets panic and the public braces for economic apocalypse in the face of the new US tariff regime, both Donald Trump’s allies and detractors have the same message: there is a grand plan here.

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

Americans articulated a lot of gripes with Joe Biden’s term as president: the rising unaffordability of daily life; the censorship of political speech on social media; the dramatic shrinking of the welfare state, including Medicaid, after its brief expansion during the pandemic; the “wars around the world,” in Biden’s words, fought or funded by the United States that were either killing massive amounts of innocent people or felt like they were about to spin out of control any minute.

2 weeks ago | savageminds.substack.com | Branko Marcetic

After more than a decade of liberal-driven censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump’s second election win was meant to have, in his own words, “saved free speech in America,” starting with an executive order on day one to “stop all government censorship,” which is “intolerable in a free society.” Instead, Trump’s ascent to the presidency is so far seeing a dramatic, across-the-board clampdown on all kinds of First Amendment–protected speech, and a ramping up of government suppression of...

2 weeks ago | znetwork.org | Branko Marcetic

After more than a decade of liberal-driven censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump’s second election win was meant to have, in his own words, “saved free speech in America,” starting with an executive order on day one to “stop all government censorship,” which is “intolerable in a free society.” Instead, Trump’s ascent to the presidency is so far seeing a dramatic, across-the-board clampdown on all kinds of First Amendment–protected speech, and a ramping up of government suppression of...

2 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

After more than a decade of liberal-driven censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump’s second election win was meant to have, in his own words, “saved free speech in America,” starting with an executive order on day one to “stop all government censorship,” which is “intolerable in a free society.” Instead, Trump’s ascent to the presidency is so far seeing a dramatic, across-the-board clampdown on all kinds of First Amendment–protected speech, and a ramping up of government suppression of...