How to talk about slavery has been thrust anew into the national conversation by Ron DeSantis, whose state recently passed a law whitewashing how the subject of slavery will be taught in schools in the state.
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It's never a good sign when you wake up and discover you are facing prosecution under the same law that put Ku Klux Klan members in jail in the 1800’s. But then again, in today’s Republican Party, maybe that is a good thing.
Not even a day has passed since it became known that Defendant Trump received his target letter from the DOJ. The "other shoes" just keep falling.
We don’t know any more about Prigozhin’s plans than we do about where Putin sleeps at night. But for right now, it looks like two thugs keeping everyone, including each other, guessing. As Borat would say, “What a country!”
House Republicans voted to show that their hatred of LBGTQ, women in the military and their obsession to prevent a woman's right to give birth or not supersedes their Constitutional duty.
“We’re not racists, we’re just snobs” could be the national motto of what you might call the Tommy Tuberville branch of American racists.
The fact that Prigozhin isn’t in the cell next to Alexey Navalny missing the soles of his feet with red welts all over his well-fed face is really all you need to know about Putin’s fading power.
We have Founding Fathers, all right, but we have Founding Mothers and Founding Educators and Founding Workers, and God help us, Founding Slaves, and all of them deserve celebrating and our thanks.
Chief Justice Roberts, take off your robes and get off your ass and go out on the streets of D.C. and ask any Black person you encounter how the color of their skin has affected them.
Listening to the tape, you can hear comments attributed in the Special Counsel’s indictment. But then we get to what politicians like to call the red meat, the real stuff, and in Watergate parlance, the smoking gun.
Trump's interview with FOX's Bret Baier may one day end up as evidence in his trial on classified documents charges as well as any case against him for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Smoke signals from grand juries and drums from Bedminster: The investigations regarding Trump’s theft and mishandling of top-secret documents may not be yet complete.
To understand what has happened to this country, we need look only to the one big thing Trump did: He opened the proverbial Pandora’s box and allowed a poison to infect our politics.
When Nixon was president in 1969, his pay was $200,000 a year. But he owned vacation homes in Florida and San Clemente, California, and upon leaving office, was able to buy a home in New Jersey for more than $3 million.
It’s important to be aware that Donald Trump is not the president anymore. Today in Miami, he’s going to be, for the second time, seated behind the defendant’s table in a court of law.
Trump's attorneys called the investigation of Trump "lawless." Yet it has yielded a stunning series of charges against the first former President ever indicted for criminal conspiracy and violations of the Espionage Act.