Growing up, I thought aliens came from outer space. I had no notion about aliens being immigrants. For the longest time I thought the aliens who lived next door came from another planet.
Patriot Front Nazis paid an unannounced visit to the Capital, though surrounded by police. Joe Flood noticed there were no counter protestors. So he picked up the job by himself, quite effectively.
President Biden took note of the ongoing and rising tide of racist violence, accurately pointing out that “the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.” And Biden is not alone in that assessment.
Lacking any core beliefs or principles other than obeisance to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry, the Republican Party has become one giant grift, and the USA is its mark.
There are a lot of decisions we must make as voters and the information we have to work with has evolved in directions we never expected—and now there are things we just can't un-hear or un-see.
Most journalists understand that Trump has no business being anywhere near the White House and that they have an objective obligation to warn their audience that his election would mean national self-destruction.
Ron DeSantis's behavior is similar to how the Germans handled higher education in the 1930s: You either got with the cultural program or else, like economist Peter Drucker and physicist Albert Einstein, you left.
Not only was the Iraq War a failure, but the pretense upon which we waged that war was a lie. The fact that no one has been held accountable, has served to enable Putin and his illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr tried to continue to represent her district despite being banned from the Montana House, only to be harassed by a smug group of GOP "Christian" wives.
The steps to establishing a fascist dictatorship are there for us to observe in history. It is time to learn from that history—because present-day fascists certainly have and are striving for a repeat performance.
The NRA's never ending stream of messages about "protecting" the 2nd Amendment has tended to obscure the fact that there are many other rights granted by the Constitution.
Americans have been shamed into believing that belonging to the working class is tantamount to admitting failure, that workers are only workers because they are not willing to try harder to succeed.