We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer. We here in real America have to...
Next week will be the long-awaited Democratic National Convention. The digital format due to the COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, the convocation in Milwaukee is expected to be a historic event. Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe...
If there is anything the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic fiasco has exposed, it's our societal inequities. When it comes to public health, the most obvious inequity lies in the reality that we spend the most money on healthcare--20%...
Few were likely surprised Friday when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) capitulated to the so-called "religious right" and announced it would be overturning Obama-era transgender protections against sex discrimination in health care. Then...
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...
I'm not a huge Twitter user. I find it to be a hostile and distasteful place most of the time and I can easily get sucked into all of the negativity if I'm not careful....
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...
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...
The leading infectious disease expert in the U.S. is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is also serving on Trump''s coronavirus task force. He's estimating that the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to the deaths of between 100,000...
Some use crises to enrich themselves, like Senators Jim Inhofe, Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, Kelly Loeffler, and Diane Feinstein were discovered last week to have been doing. Some, however, seize opportunities crises present to usher in structural...
One thing the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is going to demonstrate is how this country will respond to economic strain. European stock shares dropped more than 8% Monday. Despite Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell dropping interest rates to near...
We've likely all heard the cliche, "Every cloud has a silver lining." Triteness aside, like most hackneyed phrases, it bears some truth. Sometimes it takes a little effort to put a positive spin on unfortunate events, but...
Well, here we are, in a full-blown public health emergency and the federal government whose job it is to provide the necessary precautions and reassurance is acting as though we are immune from any exposure. One...
In August, the Trump administration ramped up its next phase in the war on immigrants when it decided to deny green cards or visas to immigrants who rely on public benefits like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
The redder the state, the shorter the life. That is the argument economist Paul Krugman lays out in a December 2 New York Times column in which he debunks the typical right-wing claim the United States is...
How might we react if we discovered a foreign country was working behind the scenes to privatize our public school system? How about if that country--or any other--were in cahoots with the White House to privatize...
Anne Frank did not die in a Nazi gas chamber. She was not put before a firing squad. She was not incinerated in a crematorium. She died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This is a significant distinction. Most will...
Next they came for the sick. The Trump administration's war on immigrants--particularly those with brown skin--took another twisted turn this week when U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent letters to scores of immigrants, stating it...
Earlier this year, Alabama opened the proverbial reproductive flood gates after governor Kay Ivey signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation. Under this legislation, pregnancy begins at the moment of conception, and doctors who perform...