Russia is holding an American citizen as a political prisoner.
Yes, you read that right.
Russia is holding an American citizen as a political prisoner.
Why you haven't heard about it is a very good question.
WMBA basketball player...
Climate change is not typically something that energizes the so-called "Christian" right.
The single issue animating those who argue against women's right to their own reproductive health is abortion.
But the climate crisis and anti-choice activists' cries...
Author Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Last week, the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) once again demonstrated its monarchical authority over democracy as it appears poised to strike down...
Many are aware Meta--the company now formerly known as Facebook--is a refuge for white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and foreign trolls.
But human traffickers?
Among the complaints former Facebook employee, whistleblower Frances Haugen, filed with the Securities and...
We might be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision that legalized safe abortions in 1973.
Despite indefatigable legal attempts to block it, the most radical abortion law...
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...
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...
It's no surprise American working women make less money than men.
That is a cruel institutional bias women have had to endure since the dawn of our republic.
While not unique to the United States, nor the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Confession time: I'm occasionally paralyzed by the "age appropriate clothing" myth. You see, it's the generation I hail from. I'm 52, and grew up in the 1980s when such dumb ideas were prevalent.
However, to my...
How would you like to be denied a job because you're Muslim, or Jewish, or an atheist?
What about if you're LGBTQ?
What if you're an unmarried pregnant woman?
These questions are, of course, rhetorical. Denying an individual...
Earlier this year, Alabama opened the proverbial reproductive flood gates after governor Kay Ivey signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation.
Under this legislation, pregnancy begins at the moment of conception, and doctors who perform...
This weekend, Donald Trump tweeted he hoped Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came...These places need...
You know it's bad when even right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson says we've "gone too far."
Alabama opened the proverbial flood gates Wednesday after governor Kay Ivey signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation.
Under this...
For the first time as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is going to have to answer questions under oath.
But this doesn't have to do with former campaign manager Paul Manafort or Russian...
The end of June saw a pivotal moment in electoral history when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an obscure 28-year-old Democratic Socialist from the Bronx with no prior political experience upended the Democratic establishment by unseating incumbent Rep. Joe...
