Here are the words we have longed to say for four years: Donald Trump is gone.
After four dark, disconcerting years of anxiety and despondency, things are finally beginning to look brighter.
Not only is Joe Biden...
$600.
Unless things change, that's all some of us will be getting from the 5,593-page $900 billion relief package Congress passed Monday night.
It is half what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act delivered in April,...
We've been stuck at home a lot this year.
Maybe you've been working at your Netflix list.
Perhaps you've discovered The Mandalorian on Disney+.
Quarantines, lockdowns, and general anxiety about going out in public have been boons to streaming media companies.
So...
If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it’s our societal inequities.
When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies in the reality that we spend the most money on healthcare–20% of our...
Responding to pressure from environmental groups, New York has become the first state to divest its massive public pension fund from fossil fuel companies.
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Wednesday the Empire state will begin transitioning $226...
12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, threatening workers with evictions, student loan bills, and other expenses as the pandemic ramps up...
Your taxes are about to go up.
But it isn't because Joe Biden was elected president.
Three years ago, almost to the day, when the Republican party held in the majority in both congressional chambers, Donald Trump...
The pandemic could be killing more than those infected with COVID-19.
Due to its impact on in-person instruction, it might also be delivering a death blow to American public education.
School districts are experiencing a noticeable decline...
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
Do you know anyone who might have donated to the "Donald J. Trump Election Defense Fund"?
Well, it probably won't make any difference, but you might want to have a talk with him or her about...
12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, according to a new Century Foundation report.
The study's authors, Andrew...
Republicans have perfected the rhetoric of blaming our economic woes on social safety nets, specifically Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka “food stamps.”
They have convinced large swaths of supporters...
One day before being released from Walter Reed Naval Hospital for treatment for COVID-19, Donald Trump stated in a video he "learned a lot about Covid,” adding:
"I learned it by really going to school. This...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
Civil unrest, an unmitigated pandemic, white supremacist fascists marching in the streets, an ailing economy, worsening income inequality, lies, and voter suppression.
This is Donald Trump's America.
If he is re-elected to a second term, these will...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt.
Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
Who doesn't want to pay lower taxes?
Of all the concerns voters have, the amount they pay in taxes seems to be the most prevalent complaint.
So when Donald Trump signed a memorandum last week suspending payroll...
Months ago, several political commentators (including this one) floated the possibility that behind Donald Trump and the complicit republican party's call to de-fund the United States Postal Service (USPS) is an insidious voter suppression strategy.
We...
These is no shortage of people who claim the United States is the best place to do just about everything.
From growing up, going to school, working, vacationing, to retiring, there is no better locale under...
Believe it or not, there was a time when giant corporate behemoths like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple simply would not be able to exist.
In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act into...