Many may have been assigned in high school the legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury's inimitable 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451.
If not, briefly, it's a story about a future America in which books are banned, and...
Despite promoting a racist, sexist, homophobic, misogynistic, oligarchic, anti-democratic agenda, the modern-day republican party has a distinct advantage over the Democratic party.
It's in the messaging.
"Build the Wall".
"Lock Her Up".
"Make America Great Again".
"States' Rights" (although they...
There's a saying, "Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it."
As republicans and anti-choice activists celebrate the recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling upholding Texas's abortion ban, California Gov. Gavin Newsome is...
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...
"What the hell are we doing here?"
That's the question Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters exclaimed last week in response to images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers who have been...
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...
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...
For all the ways Joe Biden is surprising many by taking more uncharacteristically progressive stances on domestic issues, there is one area in particular where he so far bears little significant resemblance from “the former guy“.
Immigration.
While immigration...
Republicans don't need to wait until they hold a congressional majority again to wreak havoc on democracy.
We needn't look further than state-level legislation tailored specifically to criminalize First Amendment-protected free speech, suppress voting, and stifle...
Two years ago, Donald Trump proclaimed during his State of the Union Address, "The United States will never be a Socialist country."
During Trump's four years, the Republican party promulgated decades-old red scare fallacies about the...
Texas is synonymous with the oft-cited American ethos of "rugged individualism".
But perhaps that obstinance has finally come at a dangerous and expensive cost.
As President Joe Biden on Saturday approved a major disaster declaration for Texas after...
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...
A global pandemic ripping through the United States is not deterring American voters.
More than 91 million have cast their ballots, putting the country on pace to produce the highest voter turnout since 1908.
But this doesn't...
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...
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...
There have been two more mass shootings in America in under a day.
Yesterday, a 21-year-old gunman from the Allen, Texas (identified but who shall remain nameless) killed 20 when he opened fire at an El...
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...
Every month we are discovering more horrors to which we are subjecting people at our Southern border whose only crime is trying to gain asylum from violence responsible for tearing their countries and lives apart.
In...
