Opinions & Commentary

The GOP has forfeited the ability to defend itself against stupidity and has become a party in which even its best-educated must feign a level of ignorance that would get you flunked from a ninth-grade civics class.

The latest CPAC was the unsurprising, over-priced, under attended conglomeration of far-right hate and bigotry and we have come to expect.

It is time to expose and confront the fraudulence of phobic Christian bigots who hate and persecute people and then pass the buck to a Jesus who never once condemned anyone for their gender and orientation.

Republicans are trying to wash the blood of over a million dead Americans from Covid off their hands by shifting the blame of their mismanagement and criminal negligence elsewhere—anywhere they can.

From Nazi Germany to the Pinochet regime in Chile, global parallels of where this type of repression leads should set off alarms.

Apparently Nazi domestic terrorists need a Day of Hate to remind everyone about what losers they really are. But true to form, not a lot of them actually showed up.

Now, for our own good, we have to question the science presented as the foundation for a product, a policy or a personal health practice, or even food.

Resisting arrest is just an arbitrary, catch-all charge that can be applied to anyone, anywhere when confronted by the police, and should it be abolished as a crime.

Authors Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan have crafted a new graphic novel series offering a stark warning about how close the U.S. came to a fascist coup on Jan. 6, 2021.

Republicans want to protect our children from ever knowing that Barack Obama was president, that gay people exist, that sex is something fun, and that white Americans ever took anyone’s land, enslaved anyone or invaded countries for no reason.

Mankind hasn't been the kindest to the environment or other species on Earth. How we'll be when we fully launch into space could be really dangerous for other worlds.

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.

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.