Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the American experiment?
While we haven't slipped into full-on fascism yet, a recent Global State of Democracy (GSoD Indices) report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral...
Amid all the perfidy, cronyism, and disregard for democracy and the rule of law the former Trump administration is guilty of, one good thing that came out of four years of the most corrupt regime...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs.
They're good for national security.
As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
One of the ways Donald Trump secured the republican nomination for president, and ultimately the White House in 2016, was his opposition to other GOP contenders on Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, and the Iraq war.
While the other republicans–Jeb Bush,...
In the richest country in the history of the world, nearly half a million people lack indoor plumbing.
No surprise, most of them are people of color.
According to research from the Plumbing Poverty Project (PPP), in...
Last year, before losing the White House to Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump warned:
"If he gets in, you will have a depression the likes of which you have never seen. Your 401(k)s will go...
45 Q Anon supporters are running for congressional seats in next year’s mid-term election.
Seriously.
But it gets worse.
Hoping to join them are fellow Trumpistas who participated in the January 6 domestic terror attack on the Capitol intending to violently subvert...
The "Conference of the Parties" (COP) 26 United Nations Climate Conference is to begin in Glasgow, Scotland next week.
But unlike previous climate conferences, this one comes with a “code red for humanity.”
Unless nations arrive with plans...
This week we witnessed another example of how much the republican party hates democracy.
On Wednesday, Senate republicans blocked debate on S.2747, “The Freedom to Vote Act," the Senate's version of the “For the People Act”...
Most people are familiar with the symbolism behind a white flag.
From television, movies, and literature, we understand it to indicate surrender.
But a new phenomenon has emerged in America.
Some Donald Trump supporters have taken to displaying...
There are some people out there who actually believe Democrats, the media, and government agencies are either inter-dimensional demons or psychic vampires running a child sex trafficking ring.
There normally wouldn’t be any reason to waste time explaining...
For the first time in United States history, someone sentenced to prison was prosecuted not by the US Justice Dept. (DOJ) but by an attorney working for a private corporation.
In the 1990s, human rights lawyer...
Even months before election day, Donald Trump was peddling the "big lie" that "the only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged."
It was that either/or fallacy that helped gin...
Historian Ken Burns is one of the foremost documentary filmmakers in America, renowned for marathon features about myriad subjects from the Vietnam War, the Roosevelts, World War II, prohibition, jazz, the Central Park Five, Mark...
Democrats have a day to prove they are capable of delivering on President Joe Biden's campaign promise of "building back better."
If they fail, they risk a republican rout in next year's mid-term elections and possibly...
"What the hell are we doing here?"
That's the question Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters exclaimed last week in response to images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers who have been...
After decades of hearing republicans harangue about debt, deficits, and "fiscal responsibility," one would assume that when they are in the congressional majority and/or the White House, our economy would be stronger and more "fiscally...
Comprehensive voting reform Democrats have been promising since reclaiming the congressional majority this year may finally be within our grasp.
HR1, or the “For the People Act,” re-introduced this January, seeks, in part, to:
Include providing voters...
What is the greatest threat to global public health?
Many will argue it's COVID-19.
That's a reasonable claim since, as of this writing, there are 41,645,545 total confirmed cases in the United States alone, and 666,806 Americans...
What’s another term for a “failed coup”?
A rehearsal.
The United States came dangerously close to losing democracy January 6 when thousands of spiteful Donald Trump supporters descended on the Capitol to do the failed president’s bidding to “stop...
