Why America cannot afford to let the US Postal Service go bankrupt
The agency’s importance is growing. Come November, American democracy may depend on it.
Ex-cop and son charged with murdering unarmed jogger on video
“Ahmaud was killed three days before the anniversary of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. Both incidents are a reminder that white supremacy has been a foundation for our country and leads repeatedly to the targeting and harming people of color, particularly African Americans.”
The US leads the world in the number of cases and deaths from Coronavirus....
The name of the game in dealing with this kind of crisis is intensive, comprehensive coordination.
Policing and protest in a pandemic
The progressive left continues to organize online for what comes after this crisis, hoping to ensure that life doesn’t easily return to the kind of ‘normal’ that allowed injustices.
Trump must choose between a global ceasefire and America’s long lost wars
Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism.
What happens after the virus?
What is the purpose of our existence? I can think of only one, and that is to make the lives of people on Earth as fulfilling as possible and for as long as possible.
Stupefied yet? What’s left but renaming: ‘Trumpington, DC’ or ‘Trump Tower White House’?
To coin a phrase, “To the spoiled victors go the victorious spoils.”
Former Honduran police chief charged with trafficking drugs to US
“Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the former chief of the Honduran National Police, allegedly abused his positions in Honduran law enforcement to flout the law and play a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy.”
Only the poor starve: Hunger in the time of COVID
The World Food Program (WFP) warns that, “millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation, with the spectra of famine a very real and dangerous possibility.”
Harvard and Jeffrey Epstein
“Once Epstein was convicted, Harvard should have cut him off from further communication with the [Faculty of Arts and Sciences]. He didn't deserve more.”