Black female Veep for Biden
The word out is that Biden should select a black woman as his running mate. But which one?
A pandemic has infected the Republican Party—it has one name and many faces
“What we do have is we have perhaps the lowest, but among the lowest, but perhaps the lowest, mortality rate—death rate—anywhere in the world.”
The real choice: Social control or social investment
Societies that skimp on social investment end up spending more on social controls that perpetuate violence and oppression. This trend is a deep-seated part of our history.
Indecent stock market boom exposes riot-inducing inequality, not economic positives
Can enough discredited craziness end up teaching, “Everybody does better when everybody does better"?
Despite surging need amid pandemic, GOP moves to roll back SNAP when food assistance...
“SNAP delivered. Like it always does.”
Defending the US against looming presidential dictatorship
You heard it here: Give the shove to the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs...
Bipartisan political leaders pay tribute to Rep. John Lewis
Both Republican and Democratic leaders have joined together in paying homage to the late Rep. John Lewis.
Watching constitutionally protected freedoms die in Oregon
How long will the term “free press,” or for that matter, “freedom,” have any real meaning?
The Pentagon confronts the pandemic
One thing is inescapable: as the disaster aboard the Theodore Roosevelt indicates, the U.S. military must reconsider how it arms and structures its forces and give serious thought to alternative models of organization.
‘Alarming’: Trump blocks CDC officials from testifying to education panel on school reopenings
The White House confirmed its decision to block the testimony of Redfield and other CDC officials, saying the director "has testified on the Hill at least four times over the last three months."