Culture

Facing the world adults are wrecking.

Viruses like this Corona Virus can kill. Yet, in the world of politics there have been, for a long time now, those two other ones: The Lemming Virus and the Apathy virus. They only kill what is left of our Republican Democracy... which is not much at all!

CounterSpin interview with Sam Menefee-Libey on J20 Prosecution Update.

Why do we feverishly build more walls when they offer us less and less protection?

America remains the only major industrialized country without a universal paid leave program.

Hundreds of jobs are soon to be lost at Al Jazeera America to shut down all operations come April.

What did you think of the Bernie Sanders and Larry David sketch?

In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?

"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”

“We know that the earlier we can get people voting, the more likely we can keep them voting for the rest of their lives.”