Justice Ginsburg’s Gaffe – She Spoke the Truth
Her comments may have been "inappropriate," but they weren't wrong, and her views highlight the fallacy of a judiciary free of political judgment.
It Takes a Movement
In short, “the real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need. It takes a movement.
Trump’s COVID-19 power grab
In his mind, the coronavirus crisis is just another opportunity.
How Mitch McConnell’s republicans are destroying America
Time and again, they’ve shown that they only care about their wealthy donors and corporate backers.
Witnessing the demise of the principles of ethics and morality in the America of...
What is happening to America and its people?
Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence
Science doesn’t guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study.
The bipartisan BIG LIE: Trump’s climate genocide is normal
Emulating Goebbels—but through Deafening Silence
Anyone acquainted with propaganda’s sordid history will recognize the words “big lie”—capitalized for...
Is Pelosi preparing to drop a bombshell on the Senate impeachment trial?
We have no way of knowing what Pelosi will do, we can only speculate and hope that she does something that will prove to the American people that he is guilty as charged.
Human prehistory—why new discoveries about human origins open up revolutionary possibilities
It is one thing to analyze a given set of stone tools made by long-extinct hominin cousins and quite another to ask what their transposed significance to contemporary society might be.
CPAC 2022—no war, but the culture war
The faces of CPAC have changed from a more traditional conservative to an odd mixture of libertarian isolationism and cultural dog-whistling so loud that my labradoodle back at home started howling.