VICE US

How the DC establishment has responded to his confirmation controversy tells us an awful lot.

Prisoners have remained silent – some out of shame, others out of fear of retaliation, but most because that’s just the way it’s always been.

As with most things in America, owning and using a gun for political purposes is perceived very differently if you're a person of color.

"Rents were so low, you could work and make a decent living without a college degree."

Sound, iterative journalism can keep rumour-mongering at bay – unless it feeds a "contagion" effect of violence.

"The Sackler family is just as shameless, and only marginally less ruthless, than the drug cartels."

"I think we're going to look back on this as a Martin Luther moment, where someone's nailing the theses to the door."

Lehman Brothers collapsed ten years ago, exposing a rotten system run only by greed. In an alternate universe, things actually changed.

Instead, we should force gun owners to buy insurance and collectivize some of the risks of deadly assault weapons.

The party's establishment looks clueless and doomed. That might not be a bad thing.

From Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to an obscure Congressman from Maine, the history is uglier than you think.

From Ol' Dirty Bastard to Alex Jones and Donald Trump, William Cooper's deranged ideas have been felt insanely far and wide.