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...
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott proclaimed in his rebuttal to President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday that "America is not a racist country."
There was probably a political reason...
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 his predecessor.
Immigration.
While...
Joe Biden is wasting no time distinguishing himself from Donald Trump.
While he has the potential to become “the most progressive president since FDR,” as Bernie Sanders insisted, and while we have a duty to push...
Record turnout in this year's election is throwing Republicans into a tailspin.
They do not want democracy.
They want oligarchy.
But they know Americans outside the extremely wealthy do not.
So to maintain their wealthy donors' hegemony, they work...
We live in interesting times.
We may not stop too often to consider it, but as we speak we are at the mercy of a global pandemic the likes of which the world has not seen...
Eventually Donald Trump will go.
Even though he is refusing to concede, he has no standing come January 20.
The people have spoken whether he likes it or not.
Should he refuse to leave the White House, he...
In just the past year and a half, the Trump administration’s war on immigrants has perpetrated the following crimes against humanity:
Created a phony university to entice undocumented immigrants;
Suggested fortifying Trump’s racist border wall with a snake- or alligator-infested...
In just the past year and a half, the Trump administration’s war on immigrants has perpetrated the following crimes against humanity:
Created a phony university to entice undocumented immigrants;
Suggested fortifying Trump’s racist border wall with a snake- or alligator-infested...
Unidentified Department of Homeland Security (HHS) and U.S. Marshals Service officers have been given carte-blanche to terrorize peaceful protesters and anyone simply walking down the street in Portland, Oregon.
Under the guise of "protecting federal property,"...
When widespread protests erupt, especially when destruction of property is involved, there is inevitably a great deal of media attention on the "more interesting"--i.e., violent--aspects.
Peaceful protests rarely get attention.
But what happens when the law enforcement...
The United States should not be this broken.
Our failure to respond proactively to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has hobbled our already ailing economy and led to the needless deaths of over 100,000 Americans.
It's just yet another...
There is no level to which the Trump administration will not stoop to achieve its dystopic view of America.
There is no bottom.
Case in point: the administration is now suing an orphanage on the U.S.-Mexico border...
Super Tuesday is upon us, and the Republican party is wasting no time doing what it does best every election--disenfranchising minorities who consistently vote Democratic.
We turn our sights to Texas, where, since 2012 more polling...
The atrocities the Trump administration is guilty of committing at our Southern border are legion.
Sadly, with impeachment and the daily water torture to which we are daily subjected, the concentration camps in which we are...
The message is now loud and clear: anyone who fails to obey Trump will be swiftly punished.
Days after Donald Trump was acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial, after reports surfaced he would go after those...
At Sunday's Super Bowl, Latina singers and entertainers Shakira and Jennifer Lopez wowed the world with a stunning and age-defying performance. J-Lo is 50 and Shakira is 43 and the ladies brought it home exactly...
In August, the Trump administration ramped up its next phase in the war on immigrants when it decided to deny green cards or visas to immigrants who rely on public benefits like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
Do you have an Ancestry.com or 23andMe account?
If so, you know it can evince a web of close and distant relatives you never knew you had.
Using DNA gleaned from saliva samples, test kits break down people’s nationalities by percentage,...
Anne Frank did not die in a Nazi gas chamber.
She was not put before a firing squad.
She was not incinerated in a crematorium.
She died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
This is a significant distinction.
Most will...
