Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

What Trump will do to the United States is awful.  But because he hates the US government so much, he'll also make "America First" wildly vulnerable to hostile forces, at a time when they're already ...

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

What Trump’s team wants to do to America, and how to fight it.

On "both sides" and President Lincoln and Dr. King

Welcome to the era of the No Information Voter.

We’re now a day out from President Biden’s semi-expected but still shocking...

We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

We can add college athletes to the growing list of people MAGA and white nationalists think it’s OK to target with harassment and threats

The #FundieSnark movement battles to "deconstruct" those picture-perfect images of Christian social media

Arguing about who’s platforming Chaya Raichik is a distraction from the voices we desperately need to hear from after the death of Nex Benedict, those of young people at Owasso's public schools.

Plus, the truth about your credit cards, the scourge of our distraction economy, Honest Abe’s dying wish, banning your right to cold beer, and much more.

Lara Trump suggested that she needs to take a look at the rules, but as RNC co-chair, she wants to pick up Donald Trump's legal bills and make him the sole financial focus of the party.

A Michigan state representative espoused the racist “great replacement” theory online. His Democratic colleagues finally had enough.