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...
A seat on a local school board isn't traditionally a controversial, high-profile position.
Boards of education do not usually make front-page news.
They aren't responsible for national security, federal budgets, environmental policy, healthcare, defense, or immigration.
Most couldn't...
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...
"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...
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...
It was the end of period three, the last of three classes in a row before I had a break.
The teaching assistant assigned to some students in that class walked up to me at the...
Predictably, republicans and the corporate for-profit media pandering to them are tripping over themselves in piling on critiques of President Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan evacuation.
Some of the right-wing media headlines range from "Biden...
“We’re going back to the Capitol, right where it started. And it’s going to be huge.”
That's what Matt Braynard, former data chief for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, proclaimed on former White House strategist Steve Bannon's...
Two years ago, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts intended to exploit America's racial divisions.
Facebook said...
The United States came dangerously close to losing democracy January 6 when thousands of spiteful, armed Donald Trump supporters descended on the Capitol to do the failed president’s bidding to “stop the steal” of votes he still...
The republican fascist death cult (because we can't call it a "party" anymore) has embraced Donald Trump's big lie about a rigged 2020 presidential election, and is running full-bore voter suppression in an attempt to...
After Democratic backlash ensued regarding the Biden administration’s decision to maintain the Trump-era cap on refugees permitted to enter the United States, the White House increased the cap.
President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress was...
Republicans are afraid.
One term of Donald Trump's naked racism, xenophobia, and general incompetence cost them both houses of Congress and the White House.
They know their policies are unpopular with the American majority and the dog-whistle...
For all the impressive ways Joe Biden has begun his first two and a half months in office, we must remember the ship of state is not a speedboat.
It's more like an ocean liner.
Reversing decades...
While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless.
That is the epidemic of gun violence.
Once again, the United States has suffered...
When the world shut down last year for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, something happened to the air.
It got cleaner.
According to Global Carbon Project researchers, carbon emissions dropped by 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 due to reduced...
One day after the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) was expected to hear two cases threatening to unleash “the most aggressive attacks on the right to vote to reach the Supreme Court in the post-Jim Crow...
Here's an intellectual exercise Donald Trump's most ardent supporters probably haven't thought of.
If, as QAnon adherents believe, there hasn't been a legitimate President of the United States since Ulysses S. Grant, wouldn't that make Trump's...
