The 2020 Census data is in, with both encouraging and disconcerting results.
First, the good news.
The country has gotten more diverse.
According to Nicholas Jones, the Census Bureau's Population Division director of race, ethnicity, research and outreach:
"These...
President Joe Biden addressed the nation Monday about the events unfolding in Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1427365579145482246
No sooner did Taliban forces begin overrunning the beleaguered Middle Eastern country when critics both left and right of the political spectrum started...
Do you have that neighbor who bends your ear about the latest outrage he heard on Fox so-called "news"?
Maybe it's a relative who never misses Tucker Carlson's show, or believes One America News (OAN) is "balanced, unbiased"...
Imagine a Democrat suggested shooting unvaccinated people.
Now imagine a republican suggested shooting the vaccinated or anyone advocating vaccinations.
We don't need to imagine, because Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was caught on video last month suggesting...
“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...
Democrats hold the majority in both houses of Congress and they hold White House.
So how did such an important democratic issue like the eviction moratorium in place since September slip through the Democrats' fingers?
Now 15...
It's bad enough to have Q-Anon adherents like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene occupying a seat on the racist "America First" caucus in the hallowed House of Representatives.
It seems inconceivable there are members of Congress...
What do former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and recently ousted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have in common?
They are examples of corrupt former leaders being held legally accountable for the crimes they committed while in...
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...
For all the ways Joe Biden is surprising many by taking more uncharacteristically progressive stances on domestic issues, there is one area in particular where he so far bears little significant resemblance from “the former guy“.
Immigration.
While immigration...
Right-wing extremist groups are on the rise.
Although one might be tempted to assume their activity is confined mostly to social outcasts languishing in their basements on 4Chan message boards, recently leaked membership data from the neo-Confederate...
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...
Back in September, two months before losing the election to Joe Biden, when Donald Trump was repeating the fallacy either he win the election or it’s “rigged,” Trump announced the formation of the “1776 Commission,”...
In 2018, republicans took advantage of their inevitably fleeting majority by approving 66 judicial nominees, in addition to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Putting that into perspective, the second year of Barack Obama’s first term, the Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed 49,...
As Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders has said many times, "Despair is not an option."
That's true.
The moment we succumb to despair, particularly pertaining to politics, is the moment the opposition wins.
With so many deep-pocketed special interests...
The clock is ticking.
There are four weeks left in the congressional calendar, which means when federal lawmakers return to Washington in September, it will be time to be gearing up for November elections.
While it's not...
Republicans don't need to wait until they hold a congressional majority again to wreak havoc on democracy.
We needn't look further than state-level legislation tailored specifically to criminalize First Amendment-protected free speech, suppress voting, and stifle...
"It’s rare to go one day without a mass shooting in America."
That's how U.S. data and visual reporter for The Guardian, Alvin Chang, began a recent visual database of American gun violence.
According to the non-profit...
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives.
They hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
They have the White House.
So why are they bowing to republicans?
At a carpenters’ training center outside Pittsburgh, Pa. last month,...
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...
