Jack Mirkinson

3 days ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

With Zohran Mamdani’s decisive, astonishing win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, New Yorkers are waking up to an utterly changed political landscape—and a lot of people across the country are grappling with a feeling they’re just not used to these days. I think it’s called “hope”? The conventional wisdom headed into the election was that it would take a good long while for us to find out who’d won. But the race was over almost the second the polls closed.

5 days ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

The United States is now at war with Iran, thanks to Donald Trump’s decision to bomb a string of Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. This is, of course, very bad, and almost nobody wants a U.S.-Iran war. Unfortunately, all the people who do want a U.S.-Iran war are also in charge of the government and most major media outlets. So war is what we’re getting.

1 week ago | discourseblog.com | Jack Mirkinson

It’s been just over 22 years since the United States launched the Iraq War based on lies about weapons of mass destruction, all with the assistance of an establishment media machine that sidelined dissenters and boosted rabid warmongers around the clock. In the wake of that catastrophe, there was much muttering that lessons must be learned—that good old-fashioned skepticism needed to make a comeback, particularly from news organizations. Today, we find ourselves right back where we were in 2003.

1 week ago | aol.com | Jack Mirkinson

Last weekend, tons of people went to one of the No Kings rallies taking place across the country. And that means one thing: another round of tedious protest discourse. You get this kind of thing every time there’s a big set of demonstrations, or even a small set. The protests are meaningless! They’re going to change everything! They’re too liberal and safe! They’re too anarchic and scary! It’s what Trump wants! It’s what he doesn’t want!I hate this conversation.

1 week ago | thenation.com | Jack Mirkinson

Politics / June 18, 2025 Abolishing ICE Is the Bare MinimumICE agents aren’t out of control. They are performing their designed role as fascism’s storm troopers. Ad Policy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest New York City Comptroller Brad Lander outside of federal immigration court on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York.