Yearly Archives: 2021
Inequality virus: Pandemic widens wealth gap for women, people of color as billionaire profits...
“In every country that we looked at, inequality has gotten worse during the pandemic.”
What will it take to “build back better”?
To build back better, we must applaud the best steps at global, national, and local levels, while recognizing that the essential transformation is ultimately up to us working together for the good of all.
Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a black woman of faith on the...
Harriet Tubman once said that slavery was “the next thing to hell.” She helped many transcend that hell.
Fixing the language of journalism to reflect reality
Campaign ‘donations’ are bribes and the ‘Free’ World ain’t so free...
Feeding two birds with one hand
“Nuclear weapons are always in the wrong hands.”
The Leadership Institute: Conservative PR school
Trumpism, most unfortunately, is still with us—as is The Leadership Institute with its arch right-wing operation, now extending globally.
‘Treasonous’ Patriots? Defunct exceptionalism? Inverse MAGA? The right smash-mouths its own perfidy
A cult of empty-headed, arm-waving stunts, as with the "rigged" election, is in the end no more than absurdist tomfoolery.
‘We’ve let the worst happen’: Reflecting on 400,000 dead
Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Caroline Chen, health care reporter, shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.
Virginia police officers suspended without pay for joining Capitol riots
The penalty for the misdemeanor is up to a year in jail. The penalty for the petty offense is up to six months in jail.
Trump’s legal problems are only just beginning
Multiple investigations at the state and federal level—plus private lawsuits—await Trump in private life.