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…

On January 20, 1981, president Ronald Reagan proclaimed during his inaugural speech that government is not the solution to our problems; “government is the problem.” Those four words kicked off decades of libertarian, aka “neoliberal,” policies successful in convincing large swathes of Americans that government is incapable of doing anything…

The most consequential to Fox so-called “news’” bottom line is the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems has lodged against it after the “fair and balanced” conservative network peddled the lie that the 2020 election was fraught with inaccuracies and fraud. …

The republican party cares so much about working people, it has decided to do something truly meaningful: create more working people. But not through supporting policies that create more jobs, increase the minimum wage, or promote unionization. No, the republican party’s idea of “job creation” entails rolling back almost a…

Term limits have become a popular topic among some elected officials and voters over the past few years. Claiming they promote accountability, prevent corruption, and encourage fresh perspectives in government, some propose firm, prescribed limits, such as delineated in the 22nd amendment to the Constitution confining the office of President…

Those who control information get to decide what’s “true”. It’s no secret Fox so-called “news” has positioned itself for the past couple decades as the de facto propaganda arm of the republican party. While other right-wing hate media outlets have since been created in its image, the “fair and balanced”…

“Hunter Biden”. Just those two words has the power to provoke apoplexy in random samples of right-wing hate media consumers. Elections have consequences, and a predictable consequence of this fall’s election with republicans reclaiming the majority in the House of Representatives is spurious conspiracies about anything and anyone sans an…

On his first day in office, President Biden sent Congress a bill creating for undocumented individuals a pathway to citizenship, signed a memorandum directing the Homeland Security secretary to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and an executive order repealing “the former guy,” Donald Trump’s, Muslim ban. …

A convenient talking point, usually popular with those aligned with the right, or those wishing to conceal their political ignorance, is “Both sides do it.” There are demonstrable differences, however, between the Democratic and republican parties. For starters, the Democratic party is the party of working people. It is the…