Legitimate academic journals evaluate papers before publication by having other researchers in the field carefully read them over. But this process is far from perfect.
While most Americans who voted for Trump probably knew he was a convicted criminal, it’s unlikely they also thought he’d commit crimes in office that would gut the protections and programs that so many of them need.
Trump denied knowing about Project 2025. but unscrubbed PDF documents reveal that authors and contributors to Project 2025 are now drafting policies for Trump Administration departments.
Trump referred to his second presidency as the start of a “golden age” for America. Most likely, though, it’ll just be a golden pile of cash filling the money bin of the most corrupt president in American history.
The oligarchy of the old Confederacy never really went away and arguably it has just taken over the United States 164 years after they first fired on Fort Sumpter, this time with “Tech Bros” replacing plantation owners.
This America is not the America Dr. King dreamed of—and until it is, we who share the dream need to steward that dream in such a way that it brings us conflict and discomfort and injury; because his dream requires such things from the privileged.
An increase in idiotic people might be a reason for America’s descent toward fascism, but many working-class Republican voters and the millions of Democrats who stayed home are about to get the government they deserve.
The night before Trump's so-called sentencing, four members of our reprehensible radical-rightwing Supreme Court voted that he shouldn’t have to face sentencing at all for his crimes because he is above the law.
Trump and his "people" are creating exactly the sort of environment which can turn normal people into monsters who then seize control and ultimately destroy nations from within.
DeSantis filed a 20-page petition with the Florida Supreme Court to assemble a grand jury to investigate crimes related to the use of COVID vaccines. The result was pretty much the opposite of what he wanted.
Republican politicians don’t give a damn about your job, particularly when they can find somebody else to do it cheaper, although they do have to put on a little show from time to time to keep the racists happy.
Americans—and people who want to become Americans out of hope or desperation—deserve better. And throwing some of these rich white employers in jail instead of terrified immigrants would be a good start.
No matter how much these book-banners try to shield their children from reality. Everyone eventually crashes into it. The question is: Will they be equipped to handle it?
The climate crisis, healthcare, worker protections, and the fight against poverty are all adversely effected by the power of the wealthy elites who control the economy and the political sphere.