I was at the grocery store the other day checking out when a white woman at the self-checkout, who was not wearing a mask, was reminded politely by the clerk that state policy required she wear a mask inside the store.
The white woman snapped back with disproportionate rage, while…
On October 1 a Maryland man was arrested for murdering his brother and sister-in-law.
The reason?
He believed his brother, a pharmacist, was killing people by administering the COVID-19 vaccine to them.
The delusion and denial of scientific reality aside, this turn of events is also disturbing for what it…
That a good portion of the American population, following the Trump-led Republican Party and right-wing media, has dissociated from reality should be clear to the many not themselves residing in the ever-enlarging bubble of extremist America.
The denials of reality in favor of inhabiting a universe of alternative facts abound…
Republicans and the political right generally have routinely characterized President Joe Biden’s social and economic agendas as “socialist,” hoping a residual Cold War anti-communist hysteria will resonate with and terrify American voters, turning them reflexively and unthinkingly against policies and practices that would actually serve their interests and well-being.
If anybody needed more evidence that the war on women rages on in America, we were served up another substantial and unappetizing helping of such evidence earlier this month.
Most disturbing about this evidence is the way it highlights just how widespread the acceptance of sexism, and of violence against…
Last week The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles exposing the fact that Facebook’s own internal research concluded that their Instagram platform was causing severe psychological harm to its teenage users, particularly teenage girls. The communications the investigation uncovered highlighted links between use of the platform and increased…
Anyone who has watched Morning Joe over the past month or so has been repeatedly regaled by self-proclaimed conservative host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough blast Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for being a “big government socialist.”
Why does Scarborough call DeSantis by this most politically charged and provocative name?
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In a recent opinion piece published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary for Donald Trump and now aspiring gubernatorial candidate in Arkansas, weighed in on the COVID-19 vaccination debate, recycling the typical Republican ideological keynotes.
Reversing course like many Republicans recently to encourage…
Back in 2010, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in an interview with a California law professor, remarked regarding efforts to once again pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to make equal protection for women under law explicit in the Constitution, “Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on…
Does the United States need to be an imperial warlord on the world stage?
Should it be?
Is the role of the U.S. to police the globe and act as if it has complete license to levy its own political and moral judgments on other nations and pursue military interventions…
