The for-profit corporate media is at it again.
Last week, another stunning jobs report confirmed the U.S. economy added an additional 431,000 new jobs.
To put that into perspective, that's more than half a million jobs each...
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...
If you have been paying attention to media coverage of the Ukraine/Russia crisis, you may have noticed what looks like a capital letter "Z" painted on Russian convoy vehicles.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1495165367907409920
That mysterious symbol is also showing up...
There are fewer hate groups in the United States today.
According to Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in a report titled "The Year in Hate and Extremism" for 2021, hate group membership dropped for the third straight...
One would assume Russian president Vladimir Putin's long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine would be the catalyst to unite both American political parties against a common foe.
Yet despite global democracies' condemnation of Putin, some members of...
“I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this."
This is what United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said after reading a new report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump--the twice-impeached, authoritarian-leaning, wanna-be autocrat former president of the United States--praised Putin's "brilliant," “savvy,” and “smart”...
Since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, most Americans have grown accustomed to the knowledge that their internet, banking, commerce, and cellular activity are not private.
While there have been some eyebrow-raising moments,...
It's no surprise republicans want to eliminate anything resembling a social program that helps the poor, elderly, and middle class.
Since its passage in 1965, Medicare has been on the list of items at which the...
As nearly a dozen states are either contemplating or have decided to lift mask mandates, it's time to consider something that has gotten little consideration in the press these past two years.
As the second anniversary...
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...
As the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic nears, focus is naturally on the number of infections, deaths, and hospitalizations, especially as scientists closely watch the omicron "close cousin" subvariant, BA.2.
While infection and mortality rates...
There's a common misconception that mainstream media outlets have an overt bias toward Democrats.
This all started in the late 1970s with "pioneer of conservative talk radio" Bob Grant, who paved the way in the post-Fairness...
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...
For a party so incensed over so-called "cancel culture," republicans sure have been doing a lot of canceling lately.
They want to cancel the teaching of "Critical Race Theory" in schools even though schools aren't teaching...
In his speech last Thursday afternoon commemorating the first anniversary of the attempted coup against our government, President Joe Biden said:
“Rioters rampaging, waving for the first time inside this Capitol, the confederate flag that symbolized the...
It happens to millions every year.
They have a medical emergency and assume their health insurance will cover the costs.
Then a month or so later they receive bills for the cost of "out-of-network" care.
In the midst...
As the one-year anniversary of the attempted coup against our government approaches next week, we reflect on how close we came to losing democracy.
The past year has provided a myriad of speculation, criticism, analysis, and...
Here are just some consequential accomplishments the Democratic party can boast of this first year of the Biden administration with a congressional majority:
5.6 million jobs created and a historic decline in unemployment.
The most...
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...
