Calling the events of January 6 a coup denies the historical character of U.S. governmental institutions and once again threatens…
In the aftermath of the violent assault on the nation’s Capitol, all I heard on the cable news shows was…
All of us in the nation, indeed on the planet, witnessed the largely white mobs storming the U.S. capitol building…
Watching the senate, under the callous and inhumane rule of Mitch McConnell, fail to respond sufficiently and urgently to the…
“Teacher working conditions are student learning conditions.” This phrase has accompanied many a report on how to improve and reform…
Over the past four years, Americans have gotten a potent dose of autocracy, witnessing Trump’s repeated violations of basic democratic…
Donald Trump and his administration are on an execution spree, rushing to expedite as many state-sponsored murders of federal prisoners…
A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, by Nurse T with Timothy Sheard. New York: Hardball Press, 2020. 143 pp. Reading A Pandemic…
Haaland and Buttigieg, as just two examples from Biden’s Cabinet choices, aren’t looking for apologies necessarily; when they speak, they…
Americans have been living under a political system arguably best characterized as a tyranny of the minority for some time. …
Writing in 1782, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine exclaimed, “We are now really another people.” What…
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned aspirationally on a vision of uniting a country many see as severely, if not hopelessly, divided.…
President-Elect Joe Biden has reportedly expressed concerns about the many possible criminal prosecutions of Trump distracting from his presidential mission. …
While we can repeat over and over again that Joe Biden was elected president of the United States and will…
In the early evening of last November 5, two days after the election when mail-in votes were in the process…
In October 2018, Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and…
Hopefully our now soon-to-be former President, also known as Individual-1 in a court filing against Trump’s former fixer/lawyer Michael Cohen…
While reports from Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Moody’s all link a Biden presidency to a healthier economy and…
Donald Trump has been gutting the federal government since he took office, whether by leaving many vacant positions unfilled or…
Donald Trump and his Republican colleagues have demonstrated a dangerous habit of thought when it comes to seeking solutions to…
Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Mitch MCconnell announced he will be bringing to vote in the Senate this week two stand-alone…
Last Friday the Supreme Court indicated that on November 30 it will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal regarding…
Last Monday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case brought by Kim Davis, a former…
Donald Trump continues to attempt to scare Americans into voting for him, painting a doom-and-gloom portrait of a collapsing U.S.…
As the coronavirus sweeps through the White House, infecting Donald Trump, advisor Hope Hicks, Kellyanne Conway, three Republican senators, and…
Walking down Main Street, couples, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, cannot be legally denied the right to hold…
A 19th-century German philosopher once asserted that the educators must be educated, the point being what was passing for knowledge…
Rage has, no doubt, been a powerful political force in U.S. history. Dr. Carolyn Anderson demonstrates this fact most fully…
The stories we tell ourselves, especially the ones we tend to repeat over and over and that circulate throughout our…
American romantic poet, philosopher, and diplomat once referred to the U.S. Constitution, in an address to the Reform Club of…
Polling indicates that Americans still give Donald Trump an edge over Joe Biden when it comes to their faith in…
The American people, polls indicate, have not been buying the bill of goods Donald Trump has been selling in his…
If you were able to subject yourself to viewing any portion of the Republican National Convention, you surely must have…
The narrative Trump and his Republican allies have been weaving about his managing of the U.S. economy is that he…
Donald Trump has repeatedly declared himself the “law and order” candidate, wearing this mantle proudly. At last week’s Republican National…
Is Trump the 2020 candidate who best represents the American working class? Did the Democratic Party fail to encompass working-class…
Recently prosecutors handling the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of aiding and abetting billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in…
Republicans continue to block legislation to provide relief to tens of millions of Americans as well as the state and…
We often define culture as a “way of life.” Implicit in this definition is the notion that culture should support…
As is now widely known, the Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton recently proposed legislation that would deny federal funding to…
The Black Lives Matter movement, in demanding that we reconsider how Black lives have been valued, or rather de-valued, in…
When Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the House floor last Thursday to address the widespread sexism at work in the…
Are the majority of Americans lazy and averse to work? Would they prefer not to work and to enjoy a…
This unfortunate and hopefully soon-expiring moment in U.S. history, Donald Trump’s presidency, has been anything but subtle in summoning the…
The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission…
I always find it worthwhile to try to understand those with whom I most disagree and to decipher the experiences…
As many have pointed out, making Black lives matter is a precursor to making all lives matter. To make all…
Many Americans have been compelled by the recent mass protests to seek a fuller understanding of United States history and…
When Donald Trump appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavannaugh to the Supreme Court bench, hopes certainly dimmed substantially for…
Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of…
Recent polling indicates that an overwhelming number of Americans, close to 75%, support the protests, inspired by George Floyd’s murder,…
When a reporter asked Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a news conference last Tuesday what he thought about Donald…
Last May, the conservative group Michigan United for Liberty organized protests in the state capitol against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home…
When I first heard on the radio that retired United States Marine Corps General had issued a statement critical of…
CNN political commentator Van Jones recently issued a stark challenge to, and indeed indictment of, supposedly well-meaning White America, speaking…
We’re all in this together. Is anybody else tired of hearing this mantra? I mean, in many ways I love…
While Donald Trump has been involved in a dispute with Twitter, speciously and ignorantly crying that the social media company…
Writing for CNN, Matt Egan recently reported, “US credit card debt suddenly reversed course in March and fell by the…
Last May 15, the House passed a sweeping $3 trillion relief package that would provide another round of stimulus checks…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has fit right in with the Trump administration, treating her government position as opportunity to enrich…
Like millions of other viewers, I have been riveted to each episode thus far of ESPN’s The Last Dance. This…
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently announced his opposition to any kind of relief packages for states, advising instead…
One on level, the coronavirus pandemic holds out the potential to shift America’s dominant cultural mentality to finally re-think—indeed come…
In his 1980 campaign against incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked, “Are you better off now than you…
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell voiced strong opposition to providing any federal relief funding to assist state and…
The inspirational mantras we hear multiple times a day remind us repeatedly that “we’re all in this together” and “we’ll…
I was out driving in Chicago the other day, and as I stopped for a red light near the corner…
The impatient discussion about when America can “re-open” for business has not only often proceeded, on the Republican side, with…
Last Tuesday, former President Barack Obama gave his much-anticipated endorsement of his former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy. The…
Americans enduring unemployment have typically, in the culture of the U.S. political economy, not been responded to with sympathy but…
Nearly one third of Americans who rent their homes, or 13. 4 million people, did not pay their rent between…
One can find in the media many important analyses and accounts of the way the coronavirus pandemic has exposed and…
A friend of mine who runs his own small law firm texted me the other day after the financial relief…
Noted nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, opens his 1849 essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” one of the most famous…
“It’s like suddenly they realized we are here contributing,” Nancy Silva told The New York Times. Silva, a 43-old undocumented…
As coverage of the coronavirus streams 24-7 on the airways, updating cases and casualties as well as policy shifts and…
Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed an impatience to send Americans back to work and re-open all the businesses currently closed.…
When Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker tried to purchase the protective gear necessary for healthcare workers in his state, the problem…
Some of the most recent weeks in American history alert us, if we’re paying the least bit of attention, to…
The economic culture in the United States still largely holds to the belief that private industry, guided by the pursuit…
Wise people always remind us to never let a good crisis go to waste. Wise people with evil inclinations have,…
As primary election day, March 17, approaches in Illinois, I have been doing some canvassing for a candidate running to…
We hear these days about the importance of the African American vote within the Democratic base, and rightly so. This…
Ronald Reagan notoriously once asked, “Where would this country be without this great land of ours?” As ridiculous as Reagan…
It’s easy to sell people on lower taxes and to encourage people to hate paying taxes. Few politicians, even those…
Arguing to center LGBTQ people in contemporary discussions about, and activism for, civil rights, certainly risks igniting an inflammatory comparative…
In his State of the Union address earlier this month, President Trump celebrated the putative success of the economy he…
I know facts have a hard time surviving and garnering any credibility in Trump’s truth-free political swamp, but let’s give…
In his State of the Union Address, Trump took a swipe at what he called “failing government schools.” Most of…
The drama of the impeachment of the nation’s president, reports indicate, simply has not captured the interest or concern of…
Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig published their assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency…
In his classic American novel of 1925 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald crafts the character Meyer Wolfsheim, a Jewish…
On this day of the 2020 Women’s March, masses of people across the nation will gather and march to call…
The wealthy often complain when sane and reasonable minds point out the dangers and reality of the obscenely class-stratified nature…
When Josh Jacobs was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft, he received…
What is the story of the U.S. economy? Not unlike the proverbial elephant subject to scrutiny by a band of…
Who would think of making a comedic drama about the Holocaust, one the most tragic and horrific events in world…
In the last Democratic debate, candidates challenged the narrative that record-setting stock market performance and historically low unemployment rates signal…
When Democratic primary candidates were asked last Thursday about the economic policy platforms of their campaigns in light of the…
The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this…
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