January 4 is National Trivia Day. Bars around the country will likely be filled to capacity with people drinking expensive beer and attempting to collect prizes by answering pub trivia questions of varying difficulties. It's...
Last week, we learned Facebook was preparing to give Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts that suggest African American rights groups, like Black Lives Matter, posed a political threat, in an effort to...
If anything brightened up the weekend of Donald Trump's inauguration, it was the many images we saw from the Women's March on Washington, as well as sister marches around the world. From the planeloads of nasty...
Many right-wingers just love to use the term "bleeding-heart liberal" to describe us. They especially use it when we talk about compassion and inclusion for everyone. You may have heard it if you spend any...
Even in 2016, hate groups exist in a larger capacity than they should. Using data from the latest year available (2015), there are currently 892 of them nationwide, according to the authority on hate groups,...
I should preface this piece by disclosing that although I am qualified, I am not a doctor of sociology or social psychologies.
All I have to justify the following argument are about seven or eight ghost-written...
Boycott Israel, go to prison.
You read that right.
If a bill introduced on March 23 goes through the legislative process, and President Donald Trump signs it, the federal government would then have full authority to prosecute...
A friend shared an article on my Facebook timeline that explained "Why Liberals Are Smarter Than Conservatives" by Satoshi Kanazawa. The article was originally written for Scientific Fundamentalist.
Some of the highlights:
Liberals usually support such social...
I didn't know what to feel last month seeing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange being hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London like a recalcitrant child misbehaving at a county fair.
After all, this is the guy...
While the media diverted some attention away from reporting on the Black Lives Matter protests and the spike in coronavirus cases to focus on Donald Trump's underwhelming Tulsa, Okla. rally on Saturday, two nuclear superpowers...
Ever since becoming White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has done more than enough to replace Kellyanne Conway as Donald Trump's main peddler of alternative facts. It's gotten to the point that it's more...
For all out there feeling a little demoralized about the class warfare congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's administration are waging against us, results from Tuesday's elections should lift your spirits.
Let's start in Virginia where...
Yesterday, as the country was still reeling from the thirtieth mass shooting in the first 45 days of the year, the eighteenth school shooting, I decided to look up how much the Republican, John Faso (NY-19),...
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”...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
It's probably happened to many of us. You relocate to a wonderful city for its cultural offerings and employment opportunities, or to a quaint town for its natural beauty and laid-back lifestyle only to learn...
Who would have imagined people would have to protest for a free and open internet?
Yet that is exactly what is planned to occur outside Federal Communication Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, the day...
For much of the campaign, Donald Trump has tried to convince us that the polls are underestimating his support. Supposedly, there's an army of hidden and potential Trump supporters waiting in the wings--and if they rally...
“The president of the United States is not well.”
Thus begins Vox writer Ezra Klein's article, "Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read," published last week after President Donald Trump stunned us once again...
Conservatives hate science, especially when it refuses to confirm their biases on issues they would rather not talk about in the first place.
That dynamic was in evidence Monday evening on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show....
