Gov. DeSantis: You’re a history grad. Tell me when systemic racism ended.
Today’s champions of white victim hood claim that the teaching of ethnic history and ongoing/systemic racism stokes guilt feelings among white students and anger between students of different racial groups.
On the ground activism: Hundreds march in Chicago to protest against GOP health care...
"This bill puts at risk health care for over a million people, billions of dollars for Illinois and tens of thousands of jobs."
The US has more climate deniers than any other wealthy nation, survey finds
A 23-country poll found that the U.S. led rich nations in the percentage of people who said that climate change was not caused by humans.
Hollow men: All the cowards of Jan. 6
I propose that we alter the American idiom “to haul ass” from now on, substituting “to hawley ass.”
The Right’s grotesque, negative learning curve is steadily demolishing its national brand
For a white nationalist base obsessed with “losing its country” (and dominance) to outsiders and non-whites, won’t chronic, severe political whoppers achieve exactly its worst fear?
GOP’s twisted priorities: Israel aid bill paves the way for wealthy tax cheats
Does the latest move from the GOP fits neatly into a broader pattern of policy decisions that prioritize military spending and the interests of the affluent over social welfare and justice?
How to talk to your climate denier uncle this Thanksgiving
“Making America great again means denying Chinese hoaxes.”
Perfect storms? From Katrina to Maria, some would profit from catastrophe
“I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack.” –Donald Trump in Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Oct. 3rd
What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
‘Alexa, launch our nukes!’
“Humans are not perfect, but they can empathize with their opponents and see the bigger picture. Unlike humans, autonomous weapons would have no ability to understand the consequences of their actions, no ability to step back from the brink of war.”