Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The emperor’s new rules

What rules could possibly legitimize the kind of destruction we just witnessed in Gaza, and who would want to live in a world ruled by them?

As republicans stall election reform in the US Senate, democracy comes under greater strain

Both parties are vying to change who votes and how ballots are cast.

Why This New Overtime Rule Is A Big, Big Deal

Either we go with the business allies of Donald Trump who believe the extra time and labor of low-wage workers should be exploited without compensation, or we believe in restoring the bargain we used to have with lower-wage workers that they deserve the humanity of a 40-hour workweek and the fairness of time-and-a-half for working overtime.

“Libs of TikTok” and the right’s war on public education

This seems like the ultimate end game of all these attacks on public education.

Clearing the Trump Trainwreck!

When reality goes from bad to worse/ What’s sane for me is satiric verse.

What have we learned from COVID-19?

For I believe that this catastrophe should have taught us something about what is good and bad about life.

Victory at last!

In America’s wars, failure is the new success.

How Power Works

When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.

The time for a debate on gun control is now

The list of massacre sites will continue to grow, without end, until we have the debate and enact sensible gun control.

Eugenics rears its unsavory head: Vaccine schism saves the intelligent & sacrifices the backward

Right-wing vaccine resistance could remove thousands of Trump voters in critical red states.