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...
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 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...
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...
Most people are familiar with the symbolism behind a white flag. From television, movies, and literature, we understand it to indicate surrender. But a new phenomenon has emerged in America. Some Donald Trump supporters have taken to displaying...
"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...
Predictably, republicans and the corporate for-profit media pandering to them are tripping over themselves in piling on critiques of President Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan evacuation. Some of the right-wing media headlines range from "Biden...
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...
Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders said it best in his New York Times op-ed piece on Friday: "The U.S. must stop being an apologist for the Netanyahu government." After more than a week of relentless Israeli bombardment...
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott proclaimed in his rebuttal to President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday that "America is not a racist country." There was probably a political reason...
Republicans are afraid. One term of Donald Trump's naked racism, xenophobia, and general incompetence cost them both houses of Congress and the White House. They know their policies are unpopular with the American majority and the dog-whistle...
While Democrats seize their razor-thin majority in both houses of Congress with legislation designed to improve average Americans' lives, states with Republican majorities are going full authoritarian on voting rights and people's First Amendment right...
One day after the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) was expected to hear two cases threatening to unleash “the most aggressive attacks on the right to vote to reach the Supreme Court in the post-Jim Crow...
Five months ago, Donald Trump tweeted the following: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1287877621380837378 He was responding to “left-wing violence,” “dangerous radical leftists,” and "radical ANTIFA" supposedly wreaking havoc in Portland, Ore. during Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests this summer over the...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times. One of the...
A video taken before “blue lives matter” adherent Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire and killed two BLM protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25 shows police tossing water bottles to armed civilians. One officer broadcasted “We appreciate you being...
Eventually Donald Trump will go. Even though he is refusing to concede, he has no standing come January 20. The people have spoken whether he likes it or not. Should he refuse to leave the White House, he...
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...
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...