For all their sturm und drang about "big government," republicans really don't have a problem with government intervention as long it helps boost their wealthy campaign contributors' profits, prevents voters they don't want to include...
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...
Despite being accused of "doing nothing," when Democrats reclaimed control of the House of Representatives in 2019, they wasted no time in passing a slew of legislation.
The first, and arguably the most necessary, was HR1,...
While Democrats seize their razor-thin majority in both houses of Congress with legislation designed to improve average Americans' lives, states with Republican majorities are going full authoritarian on voting rights and people's First Amendment right...
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...
Republicans had an opportunity to remove Donald Trump from office a year ago.
Yet, despite incontrovertible evidence of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress leading to Trump being the third president to be impeached, the...
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...
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...
Anyone still needing evidence of Republicans' racist voter suppression tactics should look at what just happened in Georgia.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is calling Tuesday's in-person presidential primary a “complete meltdown” after predominantly minority regions of the state...
Milton Mayer (1928–29) was a journalist, reporter for the Associated Press, the Chicago Evening Post, the Chicago American, and The Progressive.
In 1955, he published a seminal work titled They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 in which he analyzes how Hitler came to...
Last month, Donald Trump instilled fear in thousands after announcing mass Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and round-ups of undocumented Americans.
Then in a classic reality show-style bait and switch to appear bi-partisan, he abruptly...
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...
Joe Madison, progressive talk show host on Sirius XM satellite radio's Urban View channel, suggested on the air this week that Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employees stationed at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport should stage a mass sickout immediately...
The "blue wave" cometh!
Tuesday's mid-term election results were historic, to say the least.
Hopefully they are a harbinger of the progressive direction the nation is heading as we look ahead now to unseating Trump and company...
2018 mid-term elections are weeks away.
Are you registered to vote?
Do you know where your polling place is?
Why don't you take a moment to check.
Ten years ago the Republican party was licking its wounds after the...
As primaries for November's mid-term elections happen all over the country, our attentions are again on election integrity.
We are all aware by now Russia had an enormous hand in influencing the outcome of 2016.
And although...
Earlier this week, we got a very loud reminder that state elections matter at least as much as federal elections. A Republican state representative in Georgia who happens to be the wife of a former...
Perhaps you've heard of James Stachowiak. He's well-known on the internet as a wannabe domestic terrorist, righting perceived wrongs that he sees in society. He's the hate-filled jerk who urged "patriots" to shoot women and children...
In the aftermath of Charlottesville, a debate began as to whether or not monuments and statues celebrating the defeated Confederacy should be removed in the Southern states where they're so prevalent. Those who support keeping...
A few weeks ago, several current and former students at an elite private school in Atlanta got the bright idea to play a beer pong game that made fun of the Holocaust. They may have thought...
