Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites
In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences—for wealthy whites.
Making madness normal in wartime
All the talk about “heroism” and “duty” greased the wheels for slaughter.
The problem with ‘humanely raised’ poultry and eggs
Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation.
Getting past stars and swipes forever
In 1776, public-spirited patriots emerged from the ranks of America’s most privileged. Today’s richest offer up precious little of that public spirit. Why?
The 2024 election could be Big Pharma’s reckoning
It’s clear at this point that the 2024 election could very well hinge on which party can capture the populist mantle on Big Pharma.
Rethugs on a roll—downwards, chancing national threatened species status?
They “won” by owning the Supreme Court,/ Then lost when marked "cruel spoilsport."
Self-indicted by unpatriotic hate speech, witless right hypocrites slur Dems for ‘hating America’
The first national party to run "for the American presidency by running against the Constitution and the rule of law."
The patriotism of killing and being killed
Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics?
The USA’s systemic racism includes its wars
Hidden in plain sight is the fact that virtually all the people killed by U.S. firepower in the “war on terror” for more than two decades have been people of color.
No wonder the MAGA misery cult is aggrieved, willfully out of sync with the...
Whereas the right is fixated about the past, the present and the future – the left knows humanity makes human history and that progress remains a noble humanistic quest.