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It’s exceedingly rare that the Supreme Court simply snatches away an established constitutional right, let alone one impacting personal bodily...
The right-wing “Federalist Society” is one of the most colossal scams ever perpetrated on the American people. An organization...
In the coming weeks, we can expect a lot of new doors to be kicked open by law enforcement and their friends in Republican-dominated state...
Having already confirmed its intent to force people who become pregnant to bear unwanted children under the penalty of criminal laws and...
In the Academy Award-winning 1984 film Amadeus, F. Murray Abraham brilliantly portrayed Antonio Salieri as a mediocre court composer who was so...
Con artists are a special breed of predator. Not only do they traffic in humanity’s most basic passions—their hopes, fears and expectations—but...
As Democrats, we often fall into the trap of finding comfort in polls which suggest that many Republicans “feel” or “believe” certain things...
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently authored an interesting column in which he candidly acknowledged his surprise at the vehemence...
It was a story designed to send any conservative into apoplexy. A suburban Chicago high school decided to implement a “race-based” grading system...
The third pillar of our esteemed federal system is entering a chaotic phase as the investigation heats up into the premature and embarrassing leak of...
There are a lot of opinion pieces out there in the media after Tuesday’s massacre at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, just as there were...
Most people who’ve had kids know the routine (some of us know it several times over): At certain points during pregnancy, tests are administered at...
It was summer 1979. The new Dylan album everyone had been talking (arguing) about was finally out. I tore off the plastic wrap, gone went the...
So we’re knee deep in potential recount territory in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On one side we have a TV huckster named Mehmet Oz; on the...
The first “leak,” though unprecedented, was survivable. There have been other instances of justices telegraphing their opinions on a forthcoming...
It took next to zero effort for pandering Republican state legislators to obtain cut-and-paste, ALEC-generated laws banning and criminalizing all...
A lot of the commentary in the past week regarding the leaked Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade has understandably focused on the sheer...
Chief Justice John Roberts is understandably upset about the leaking of his fellow conservative, Samuel Alito’s, wrathful, misogynistic diatribe...
Nineteen-year-old Florida resident Alexander Jerich was looking for a way to commemorate the birthday of his hero, Donald Trump. Simply driving around...
Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child abuse. In an effort to generate publicity for his scandal-ridden Senate campaign, Missouri...
In the span of a few weeks, the tilt of the geopolitical world has shifted so quickly that perhaps Americans just haven’t had enough time to...
In the post-Trump era, it seems like nothing can really shock Americans anymore. That is why Republican senators like Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and...
During the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s state-controlled propaganda networks have relied heavily on translated...
At this point the staggering miscalculation shown by Vladimir Putin in invading Ukraine is fairly obvious to everyone (except perhaps to Putin...
The Biden administration and NATO have shown remarkable unanimity on one singular piece of phrasing in response to Russia’s unprovoked attack on...
It’s disturbing but predictable that, as the Ukraine crisis continues to unfold, many Americans are getting what amounts to their first “crash...
Despite Vladimir Putin’s draconian efforts to control the flow of negative information about his ill-conceived and (so far) poorly executed war on...
It’s hard to tease out what truly motivates a dictator, president, or other head of state to instigate an unprovoked, unnecessary war. It may be...
Health policy researchers led by Michael L. Barnett, M.D. of Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health have confirmed what many have...
Russia has now embarked on what is unquestionably a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, so it seems an appropriate time to revisit some of the media...
How do you subdue a hostile nation of 44 million people with an army consisting of just 190,000 troops? The only way would appear to be by inflicting...
This piece, written by Yascha Mounk and published this week in The Atlantic, has generated considerable debate (and engendered considerable angry...
The purportedly homegrown display of economic sabotage currently unfolding in Canada and on the U.S.-Canadian border has garnered a large share of...
Dec. 14, 2020 was a heady day for Arizona Republicans. Despite the fact that their candidate Donald Trump had been defeated in Arizona, despite...
The U.S. media are still flummoxed by the question of how to cover Donald Trump’s actions, even a full year after his ejection from the Oval...
One of the time-honored, irrefutable laws of the political right is to accuse others of doing heinous things that you’re actually doing yourself....
The omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus is spreading throughout the U.S. at an incredible pace. As reported by CNBC: The U.S. reported a record...
There’s a woman who works in a jewelry shop near my home. I’ve gone there to fix my watchband a couple of times. I’m not sure exactly where she...
On Friday the mother, father, and sister of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year old Black man brutally murdered by three white men after he was observed...
Imagine testing positive for COVID-19, then deliberately not telling anyone for a week that you tested positive while continuing to go about your...
The reviews are in: “[S]o aimless it threatens your sanity” declares The Guardian. “A mesmerizing feast for the eyes,” reports...
One of the hardest things to do in life is to admit you’ve made a mistake. Admitting mistakes strikes directly at our notions of identity and...
In the final vote count for the so-called “bipartisan” infrastructure bill now sailing towards President Joe Biden’s desk to become the law of...
In a way, it’s good to have this finally stated. Over the past 30-odd years, we’ve been treated again and again to more than obvious attempts by...
Kevin Brobson is the Republican candidate on the ballot for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The race has garnered an unusually high degree of...
You only have to look at Republican fundraising tactics to gain a real appreciation for the sheer contempt Donald Trump and the GOP establishment...