Politics

Trump is in effect standing in the middle of 5th Avenue, killing Americans.

“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong,” President Obama assured us. From whose lives has the shadow of crisis passed? And for whom is this Union strong?

After all, for all of its surrealistic unpredictability, Trump Presidency is reality T.V. This isn’t just happening on the small screen. It’s happening out there, in an increasingly nightmarish world.

If we are fortunate, and enough citizens out there vote this terrible and criminal administration out of office, then we on the ‘Real Left’ have our work cut out for us.

As the shutdown continues with no end in sight, many workers are turning to food banks and food pantries for help.

The best retort to an unqualified, unstable narcissist is dramatic contrast with a principled, grounded, selfless career professional like Sanders. Broadcast Trump's vanity worldview, glorifying his almighty cash nexus, against Sanders' steadfast life of public service -- in which honor and persistence reinforce moral intentions, fleshing in Bernie's idealistic pledges. The effective way to trump Trump is present a stable, moral choice opposite in every way to his surfeit of moneyed self-indulgence, life-long manias for fame, and incendiary fabrications.

A president is not a party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination.

“We are grateful that members of Congress have rightly come to the realization that the drug war has exacerbated the racial injustices in this country...”

Some say safe-parking programs aren’t a solution to homelessness. But these women and families are grateful this church has one.

“Every one of those deaths is a mark of shame for the governments of countries like the U.K. and Germany who have protected patents over human lives.”