We should know by now it isn’t beneath the republican party to create a crisis by whipping up people’s fear and/or xenophobia. Since it only exists to cut taxes on the morbidly rich, the only method the party has to get working-class Americans on its side is to create diversions…

With all this so-called “wokeness” permeating American society, it must be difficult to be a republican these days. It’s got to be tough being groomed to believe Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in public schools. Teaching the history of American slavery might make people feel badly about themselves. …

Remember all those times Donald Trump attacked CNN? His diatribes against the so-called “liberal fake news” cable network before he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were legion. As president, he maligned it over 63 times on Twitter. Despite the mainstream news outlets gifting the former host of Celebrity Apprentice with…

I was born in 1974. According to the alphabetical classification we ascribe to generations, I fall smack in the middle of “Gen X”. Referring to historians William Strauss and Neil Howe’s generational theory chronicled in their iconic book The Fourth Turning, that means I am a “nomad,” someone who comes…

Almost a year ago, 41 senators voted to kill the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act, a bipartisan bill designed to expand health care and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals and burn pits, in retaliation for Democrats passing the Inflation Reduction Act. The PACT Act, “the…

Censorship is a dicey subject. While limiting sensitive information pertaining to national security is expected, we always have to consider who is behind that limiting and to what extent it may potentially run afoul of our constitutional right to reasonable privacy. For example, the Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing…

We know what our relatives are going to say about this next week when we meet around the table for another Holy Week holiday. “Four-day work week? People don’t want to work already!” After knocking down the sweeping generalization about people “not wanting to work,” proceed to the facts about…

Well, here we are again. Another school shooting in America only 87 days into the year. According to the Gun Violence Archive, the premier site for documenting America’s gun violence carnage, Monday’s incident at Covenant School in Nashville was the 130th mass shooting this year. …

Last year, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres darkly pronounced “I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this… atlas of human suffering” after reading an International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warning of “widespread and pervasive” impacts on all living things from frequent and…