In these days it is not enough to be good. You must be both good and loud. You must risk the slings and arrows of both strangers and of siblings, and speak directly into the bloated, contorted face of hatred until it hears you and cannot ignore you.
Opinions & Commentary
FOX News has been outed for fully knowing that it was lying in support of Trump's claims of election fraud. What this means is still being debated.
Unknown to most, the manosphere is the international engine of far-right extremists using the culture-war playbook and relying on its unique capacity to super-spread outrage and "aggrieved masculinity."
As a Black person, periodically the statement will come up that all of us oppressed folks are descended from kings and queens. What's wrong with being descended from working folks?
We have let into our lives “machine men with machine minds,” people who see us as statistics. We have given these people power and thus they have successfully taken advantage of our desire to connect with each other.
The hate of the far right is pretty much universal and our Nazis are pretty much the same evil, psychotic nutcases as the Reich.
The paranoia-terror coffee klatch of the far-right thinks every random thought is a "fact." And by this they tip their hand as to their real mindset—they fear literally everything.
Michael dies. Michael goes to Heaven and meets Jesus. Michael reality-checks Jesus...
Ron DeSantis has pushed for a curriculum that whitewashes—irony intended—the vast history of oppression of black members of American society throughout our nation's past.
A quick look back at how we briefly balanced the budget twenty years ago, along with how much has changed, shows that Republicans are unlikely to manage a similar performance.
When black officers pulled Tyre Nichols over, they did so as representatives of a faulty apparatus, one that has for decades perpetuated the message that black people are less than human.
We generally think of yellow journalism as a revenue driver, with click bait titles, loosely-researched or fully fabricated facts presented as gospel. But the same practices are also happily adopted by propagandists.
Perhaps the more important fact about Trump's anticipated return to Twitter and Facebook is that he now owns a competing social media platform. The implications of this could be a "yuge" problem for him.
The Republican Party's dubious hallmark is willed stupidity super-glued to shameless hypocrisy: They want to cut a bedrock social programs despite the fact that 25% of the national debt was accrued by their feckless Art-of-the Deal guru.
The very ability of our government to function on our behalf is being held hostage by insurrectionists in Congress and the ransom is unacceptable. When will the Department of Justice act?
As a country, we don’t remember what happened 222 years ago, because we tend not to remember history. But also because that political storm “rolled harmlessly away.” Will we be as lucky?