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...
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...
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 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...
Two years ago, court documents revealed several California police officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists, and even solicited their help targeting counter protesters after a violent June 2016 white nationalist rally in Sacramento that resulted in...
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...
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...
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...
Is there really any doubt anymore Donald Trump is fanning the flames of right-wing domestic terror?
While it may be true Trump finally capitulated to pressure to condemn white supremacist groups in an interview with Fox...
The United States should not be this broken.
Our failure to respond proactively to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has hobbled our already ailing economy and led to the needless deaths of over 100,000 Americans.
It's just yet another...
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...
The atrocities the Trump administration is guilty of committing at our Southern border are legion.
Sadly, with impeachment and the daily water torture to which we are daily subjected, the concentration camps in which we are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two days after the first presidential debate against Democratic rival Joe Biden, at which Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacist groups, even instructing the white supremacist group "The Proud Boys" to “stand back and...
On Wednesday, students at Riverton High School in Wyoming stormed through the front doors of the school dressed in what appeared to be KKK robes and waving the American flag. They were both wearing white...
"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...
