How would you like to wake up one morning to the following headline: "Donald Trump Indicted for Criminal Racketeering"?
Well, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, that headline may be breaking soon.
In an interview...
In the richest country in the history of the world, nearly half a million people lack indoor plumbing.
No surprise, most of them are people of color.
According to research from the Plumbing Poverty Project (PPP), in...
For two weeks, the New York City Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) members have been engaged in a hunger strike outside City Hall demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio grant debt relief for the taxi medallion price...
45 Q Anon supporters are running for congressional seats in next year’s mid-term election.
Seriously.
But it gets worse.
Hoping to join them are fellow Trumpistas who participated in the January 6 domestic terror attack on the Capitol intending to violently subvert...
There are some people out there who actually believe Democrats, the media, and government agencies are either inter-dimensional demons or psychic vampires running a child sex trafficking ring.
There normally wouldn’t be any reason to waste time explaining...
Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana.
A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state.
Most of the country now has either fully legalized, decriminalized, or allows...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders.
He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend."
Last year Yang partnered...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it.
Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times.
One of the...
Responding to pressure from environmental groups, New York has become the first state to divest its massive public pension fund from fossil fuel companies.
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced Wednesday the Empire state will begin transitioning $226...
The nation is transforming right before our eyes.
Despite states re-opening after months of lock down, the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic is still infecting thousands every day, and a vaccine is not predicted any time soon.
The economy--already precarious...
A month ago, as New York became the national coronavirus/COVID-19 epicenter, many were hailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero.
Looking and sounding far more of a leader at his daily press briefings than Donald Trump,...
It's been two months since the country first locked down in an attempt to "flatten the coronavirus/COVID-19 curve."
Current confirmed cases in the United States exceed one million.
Over 87 thousand Americans have died.
We still do not...
New York, New Jersey, and California top the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the nation.
Consider they are also states with Democratic governors and have been targets of Donald Trump’s ridicule.
They are also commonly cited as the...
Centuries from now, historians will be writing (or whatever the equivalent will be) about how we handled--and didn't handle--the coronavirus/COVID-19 that has, to date, killed over 118,000 people worldwide.
A vestige of this pestilence are mass...
There is no shortage of encouragement and benevolence all around us during this global pandemic.
People get it we are all in this together.
No one embodies this sentiment more than those on the front line, like...
Why is Florida apparently the only state to be receiving the lion's share of equipment necessary to combat the coronavirus?
Might it have something to do with the fact that Gov. Ron DeSantis is a Republican?
Could...
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...
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...
While it's true housing discrimination did not originate with Donald Trump, it is true that, as president, the housing policies he has advanced through the office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headed by Ben...
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...
