Monday, June 22, 2026

Civil Rights: From Sundance, to Selma, to South Carolina

In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?

Trump touts long-shot, can’t-lose gambit: ‘How to overcome a rigged, corrupt election? Just Trump...

Honor is due: Time to Make Elections Fair Again. MEFA! Won’t be any harder than building that friggin’ wall.

The world according to Trump

Is this the personality of a sociopath?

Disposable Children

Wealthy Americans are justifying the neglect of our nation's children by blaming the victims—children of the poor. In a perversely unequal nation, are children of all ages deemed disposable?

How the US became an international serial killer

Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. 

Why is Kaiser Permanente engaging in corporate Kabuki?

Ahead of a potentially historic strike, a major nonprofit health care provider seems to be choosing corporate values over worker rights—and by extension, patient care.

Our country, the United States, is a rogue nation and our leaders are criminals

Should we fear for the future of this rogue nation and of the world?

Republicans: Against government of, by, and for the people

Don’t these control freaks understand that when a country like America is in the midst of a crisis it’s the job of the government to step in and use all the resources it has to bring it under control?

Exploring the mindsets of typical, fanatical Trump supporters: Part 3

This kind of subservient attitude and blind loyalty is unbelievable, beyond comprehension, it’s as if these Trumpsters may have been mind-conditioned.

Judicial capture series. The Roe decision.

How did this single pending decision pose a direct threat to judicial review itself?