A second migrant child detained at the United States’ Southern border in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody has died. 12 minutes before Christmas day, eight-year-old Guatemalan boy Felipe ...
Climate change is not typically something that energizes the so-called “Christian” right. The single issue animating those who argue against women’s right to their own reproductive health is abortion.
How would you like to wake up one morning to the following headline: “Donald Trump Indicted for Criminal Racketeering”? Well, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay ...
Remember back during Barack Obama’s second term when republicans chanted, “Hillary Clinton Lied and Four Americans Died” after the Benghazi, Libya embassy attack? On that day Matthews was attorney to ...
Author Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” With six right-wingers on the Court–three of whom are Trump appointees with questionable stances on Roe v. Wade–the ...
A seat on a local school board isn’t traditionally a controversial, high-profile position. Boards of education do not usually make front-page news. They aren’t responsible for national security, ...
Comprehensive voting reform Democrats have been promising since reclaiming the congressional majority this year may finally be within our grasp. It passed the House 220-210 on March 3 with no ...
Several previously optimistic about our ability to mitigate the worst of the climate emergency are now becoming more cynical. Today we have a “code red for humanity,” according to United Nations ...
All we need to do these days is step outside to see, smell, and feel the destruction of climate change accelerating. Smoke from West Coast wildfires, for example, stretched as far as New York and New ...
While immigration has been an albatross around every president’s neck and there is no panacea for it, there are progressive, humane immigration policies administrations can pursue. To be fair, ...
One term of Donald Trump’s naked racism, xenophobia, and general incompetence cost them both houses of Congress and the White House. They know their policies are unpopular with the American majority ...
Some will read the above tweet from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and only see the “T-word.” We rarely meet anyone anxious to pay taxes, even those who understand taxes are the price we pay for living in a ...