Great mask furor: Monkey trials redux. Faith alone vs. science and reason
How much disease and death is enough to force this nation to learn from failure, reject T.V. magic shows and return to sane science?
The Cold War is back and Trump is no Truman
When the curtain went up on the rolling crisis that was the Cold War, Harry Truman was president. Donald Trump is no Truman.
Bipartisan senators praise passage of Great American Outdoors Act
“Years of bipartisan work have led to this moment and this historic opportunity for conservation.”
Police detective charged in fatal shooting
“His conduct was reckless. It was reckless and in violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
‘Shell must not get away with this’: Niger Delta still waiting for big oil...
Titled "No Clean-Up, No Justice," the new report explains that for "more than five decades, the people of Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta, have struggled against oil pollution, destruction of the environment and human rights violations."
How the Supreme Court undermined the Black vote
Black Americans braved police violence at Selma and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court’s Shelby decision ushered in a new era of racially targeted voter suppression.
Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from cynical profiteers
Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.
Pandemic of hate: Anti-Asian racism during COVID-19
When Trump calls coronavirus the ‘China Virus’ he INTENTIONALLY stirs up racism against Asian Americans.
A time of reckoning for monuments to racism and genocide
With so many ongoing crises arguments about history may seem esoteric, but only by honestly redressing the sins of the past can we find ways to make a better future. Toppling monuments is just a start.
Sen Bernie Sanders calls out GOP for inadequately addressing police violence in new bill
“Now is not the time to think small or respond with superficial, bureaucratic proposals.”