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...
A jointly authored article from The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review noted last year: “Judging by the climate coverage to date, most of the US news media still don’t get grasp the seriousness of this issue. This journalistic failure has given...
Protests over the police shooting of another unarmed Black man intensified Tuesday amid months of unrelenting protests following the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd and of Breonna Taylor. The latest victim is Jacob Blake, 29,...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt. Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
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,"...
Looking at pictures, one might assume he is looking at images of United States military personnel patrolling some street in a far-flung country half a world away. But, no. It's Portland, Ore. And those are camouflaged federal law...
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...
We're hearing the phrase "violent protests" a lot lately. Yet the protests over the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd two weeks ago are different. For the first time in recent memory, the press is concentrating more...
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...
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...
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...
Republicans talk a good game about "democracy" and "patriotism." When it comes down to it, though, waving a flag is meaningless when one’s actions belie the very principles he or she claims to uphold. Republicans do not...
The 2020 presidential election is fast approaching, and Donald Trump can probably count on at least some of the 46 percent who approve of him voting for him. But as the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease...
Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order postponing the state’s presidential primary to June 9, as his counterparts in other states have done. That was until the state’s Republican-majority supreme court intervened, ruling elections must...
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...
To date, Georgia, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Kentucky, Puerto Rico, and New York have postponed their presidential primary elections. But something just happened in Wisconsin. On Monday, Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive...
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...