Fig. 1. The emblem of the Republic of Gilead. Icewizie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
‘Gilead’ is the name Margaret Atwood gave to the country south of Canada in which she set The Handmaid’s Tale.[1] As the United States becomes a white Christian nationalist country,[2] culminating a longstanding conservative project, I am finding the name appropriate and on these pages you will find an account of how this is coming to be:
- Joe Biden Expresses Regret to Anita Hill, but She Says ‘I’m Sorry’ Is Not Enough
- Joe Biden predicts a post-Trump ‘epiphany’ for Republicans
- ‘We’ve got to protect ourselves’: Some threaten to shop elsewhere if they can’t openly carry guns
- The Secret World of Extreme Militias
- There’s Only One Possible Conclusion: White America Likes Its Killer Cops
- Signs of white supremacy, extremism up again in poll of active-duty troops
- Supreme Court to Hear Case That Threatens Roe v. Wade
- After Trump and Moore, some evangelicals are finding their own label too toxic to use
- This Is America
- Why White People Hate Critical Race Theory, Explained
- Plaintiffs seek to block Justice Department from changing lawyers in census citizenship case
- The Twitter Board’s Panic Room
- Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit
- Yes, Let’s Defeat or Impeach Donald Trump. But What If He Refuses to Leave the White House?
- Postal Service says it has ‘ample capacity’ to handle election after Trump casts doubt
- Trump’s Russian Laundromat
- [1]Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale (New York: Anchor, 1998).↩
- [2]David Benfell, “My 2024 forecast,” Not Housebroken, June 11, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/03/10/my-2024-forecast/; David Benfell, “Start changing the border signs: ‘Welcome to Gilead,’” Not Housebroken, June 24, 2022, https://disunitedstates.org/2022/06/18/start-changing-the-border-signs-welcome-to-gilead/↩