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by Elwood Watson on November 26, 2024 Donald Trump kept telling us he'd be a threat to democracy if re-elected president. Now he's showing us. Several...
For some people, November 5, 2024, was one of the greatest days in American history. Others may well remember it as a day that will live in political...
by Elwood Watson on October 29, 2024 Both the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have attracted significant attention for their decisions not to...
Former President Barack Obama stirred up some attention last week when he suggested lackluster support for Kamala Harris among Black men is mostly...
by Elwood Watson on October 22, 2024 Donald Trump's public appearances follow a typical direction. He has a speech in mind he intends to deliver with...
Over the past few months, Donald Trump has stoked the flames of white resentment on the campaign trail. Speaking to conservative radio host Hugh...
What is old is new again, at least in the world of politics. Recently, Fox News host Jesse Watters made a quip questioning the veracity of Barack...
One can only wonder about JD Vance’s peculiar and freakish obsession with people who do not have children. The Ohio senator and Republican vice...
by Elwood Watson on September 4, 2024 One can only wonder about JD Vance's peculiar and freakish obsession with people who do not have children. The...
by Elwood Watson on August 26, 2024 Like millions of Americans, my heart melted watching Gus Walz, the teenage son of vice presidential candidate Tim...
Donald Trump’s campaign is in a fierce tailspin as his failed attacks on Kamala Harris haven’t been able to slow down her growing popularity....
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz and his fellow Democrats ratified ample changes during the two years they’ve had control of the...
One would be hard-pressed to think of a vice president in recent memory placed under as much of a political microscope as Kamala Harris. She can...
When it comes to the issue of debates, perception is often just as crucial as reality and substance. There is no way to codify the fact that Joe...
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was brimming with pride and arrogance recently when he signed into law a requirement that every classroom in his state –...
Here we are. Another year, another June and the nation is celebrating another Juneteenth holiday. On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the bill...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg deserves to take a bow following his undeniable victory. A New York jury delivered a guilty verdict in a trial...
To state the 118th Congress is an exercise in debasement, dereliction, and dysfunction would be an understatement. But what happened on the House...
For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. Trump’s bombastic...
For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster. Sex and...
Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual...
From the minute President Joe Biden selected her as his running mate, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Harris is often the...
It was “The Stepford Wives” meets “The Handmaid’s Tale.” People are still talking about the State of the Union response given by Alabama...
Historically viewed as a fringe belief system, Christian nationalism has become a considerable force in American politics, particularly as it relates...
Being the ever-menacing carnival barker that he is, former president Donald Trump said the four criminal cases he faces have garnered him significant...
It should probably come as little surprise that a majority of American millennial and Generation Z women identify as liberal. A Gallup Poll released...
From the Duchess of Sussex and actress Meghan Markle to former Harvard President Claudine Gay to Vice President Kamala Harris, Black women have been...
Several years ago, Taylor Swift was far from the femme fatale some members of the MAGA far right now consider her to be. Many conservatives used to...
In news you might have missed, 22-year old Madison Marsh – a second lieutenant in the Air Force and master’s student at the Harvard Kennedy...
By Elwood Watson In news you might have missed, 22-year old Madison Marsh – a second lieutenant in the Air Force and master's student at the...
In just the latest example of his tendency to employ passive-aggressive racially coded dog whistles, former President Donald Trump referred to...
by Elwood Watson, = In just the latest example of his tendency to employ passive-aggressive racially coded dog whistles, former President Donald Trump...
Donald Trump is on track to once again secure the Republican presidential nomination, as he did in 2016. No surprise here. Anxiety and weariness are...
Let’s talk about Claudine Gay, the first Black person and just the second woman to serve as Harvard University’s president, who resigned after...
Americans routinely plugged into the news cycle are aware of the fact that much ado was made about something (yes something) when Nikki Haley...
Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself,...
The late author Maya Angelou once stated, “When people show you who they are, believe them.” Nowhere is that saying more applicable than the...
Do as I say, not as I do. This sort of Victorian philosophy seems to be par for the course among many of the so-called family values conservatives....
Waterloo. The apocalypse. The Titanic. These are just some of the terms observers are employing to describe the current state of the Republican party....
BY ELWOOD WATSON Waterloo. The apocalypse. The Titanic. These are just some of the terms observers are employing to describe the current state of the...