Few were likely surprised Friday when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) capitulated to the so-called "religious right" and announced it would be overturning Obama-era transgender protections against sex discrimination in health care.
Then...
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...
Another Memorial Day has arrived.
Because of the number of COVID-19 deaths over the past two months, we have more to mourn this year than just fallen American soldiers.
Just in time for this sacrosanct holiday, we...
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...
There are several ways to amend our Constitution.
The most common way requires two-thirds of the Senate and the House of Representatives to approve an amendment, and three-quarters of state legislatures to subsequently ratify it.
Of the 11,000 amendments proposed...
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 know any Republicans who shouldn't be Republicans?
That is, those who aren't wealthy, rely on the same fire departments, police departments, food and drug safety standards, drive on the same public roads, and send...
If you're a veteran or current member of the U.S. military, would you mind being rented to another country?
How would it feel to be a soldier for hire, fighting not for the country you signed...
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,...
After the worst terror attack on American soil occurred on September 11, 2001, the typical neo-conservative war hawks, like then-Vice President Dick Cheney, began claiming former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein participated in the plot that...
In 2011, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2011
Nearly a year later, he followed with:
Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin –...
Last month, Donald Trump was dealt a significant blow when New York Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla ordered he pay two million dollars to settle a claim he used his theoretically eleemosynary Donald J. Trump Foundation as a...
While the Missouri state government sights in its crosshairs the St. Louis Region Planned Parenthood, the last operational women's reproductive clinic in the state, health director Randall Williams admitted last week the health department had...
In 2011, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/141604554855825408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Nearly a year later, he followed with:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Two weeks later, Trump tweeted:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/260421157201784832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This indicates a lot about how Donald Trump thinks the way presidents win re-election.
Although Trump's prognostication about Barack Obama...
One week ago, more than 4,500 climate strikes rallied across 150 countries ahead of this week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit for the purpose of holding lawmakers accountable for aggressive action on climate change's imminent threat to...
