To the far right, cruelty is more than a means to achieving a policy goal—it is often the goal itself. Cruelty for cruelty's sake—directed against "the other," a variable collection of liberals, immigrants, and minority groups.
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Three buses coming from Texas dropped off about 140 recent migrants—including babies and young children—near VP Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C., in historically frigid temperatures on Christmas Eve.
If political parties were labeled with consumer information in the manner the FDA mandates that cigarettes be labeled, the GOP would be branded with bold letters: "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT WILL KILL YOU."
The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover from Reaganism, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy.
The petition argues that Republican Reps. like Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene "are ineligible to hold future public office" under the 14th Amendment.
The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it.
Medicare Advantage is actually just private insurance that uses the trusted Medicare name to trick seniors and people with disabilities into enrolling, then profits by denying coverage for necessary medical care.
The parallels between Trump's presidency and the patterning of fascist propaganda are plain to see: the relentless repetition and disinformation, the scapegoating of the Other, the strongman identity and victimhood.
A specialty of the so-called "champions of freedom" is to prohibit everything that does not suit their interests. Their repeated “free speech” means “freedom to harass and censor.”
Twitter as a social media giant may be beyond saving, but the idea of a public-interest social network is something worth fighting for.
The question of the day, "How can Herschel Walker represent Georgians when he doesn't claim Georgia as his primary residence?"
The ridiculous and repeated delaying tactics by Trump to hide his tax returns from Congress are finally over.
Recent actions—and inaction—by the right-wing majority of the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for a Republican House majority.
A Federal judge ruled, "...the First Amendment does not permit the State of Florida to muzzle its university professors, impose its own orthodoxy of viewpoints, and cast us all into the dark."
Forever chemicals, found in drinking water, soil, wildlife, and people across the country, have been linked to health problems, including multiple types of cancer, childhood obesity and damage to immune and reproductive systems.
The broad spectrum of rapidly-worsening climate risks facing the U.S. confirms that we're past the point of incremental changes. The worst consequences of climate change can still be avoided or limited by large-scale actions.