GUEST COMMENTARY - I am at a loss for words to describe my utter outrage, my excruciating pain, and my revulsion at yet another massacre in what has become an unending cycle of carnage wrought by guns.
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WORKER’S COMPENSATION - Guests at the Tempe Mission Palms resort hotel — with its mid-century lounge and heated rooftop pool — are unlikely to think much about workers like Yolanda Hernandez.
Free Speech: It May Be Old-Fashioned, But So is Fascist Censorship
THE DOCTOR IS IN - Contrary to popular opinion among the Left, Elon Musk's actions simply mirror what most educated free people have demanded since the Renaissance:
Mass Shootings: It’s the Masculinity, People
GUEST COMMENTARY - I’m beyond fed up that the gender of the murderers are still largely absent from conversations about America’s mass shootings crisis.
An Ugly New Era of “States’ Rights”
US CONSTITUTION - There’s a lot to be worried about in the draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade — and with it, half a century of constitutional precedent.
Corporate Monopolies Are Controlling Prices. Let’s Do Something
INFLATION WATCH - Though corporate America would like us to believe otherwise, the retail prices of essential goods like food and energy are not set by simple supply and demand.
The Buffalo Massacre, Banning Books, and Systemic Racism
GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY - Ten people were slaughtered in Buffalo last Saturday, killed at a supermarket in the heart of the Black community.
Big Tech, Big Lies Are Biggest Threat to Democracy
GUEST COMMENTARY - The Department of Homeland Security revealed last week that it was creating a Disinformation Governance Board to distribute "best practices" for countering disinformation.
'Journalism Is Not a Crime': Outrage as Judge Approves Assange Extradition to US
SETTLING OLD SCORES - A British judge on Wednesday officially approved the U.S. government's request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces espionage charges for publishing classified material that exposed war crimes by American forces.
Lift The Supreme Court’s Fog of Secrecy
SCOTUS - When Supreme Court member Sam Alito’s secret plan for canceling the constitutional right of people to end their pregnancies leaked to the public, Republican politicos went ballistic.
Biden Could Set Millions of Americans Free With Executive Order
COST OF EDUCATION - President Biden campaigned on a promise to help relieve student debt.
Tax Day: Many In Financial Straits
TAX DAY - Today, as millions of Californians rush to file their tax returns and apply for tax credits, state lawmakers are returning to Sacramento from an 11-day spring recess — and preparing to resume negotiations over the best way to put money back in residents’ pockets.
There’s One Simple Trick for Making America’s Post-Pandemic Cities Great Again
CITIES REBOUNDING? - America’s great cities are coming back, albeit slowly, from the shock of the pandemic, and its divisive aftermath.
For Second Generation Immigrants, The American Dream Can Be A Nightmare
IMMIGRATION WATCH - May is Asian American Heritage Month. It’s a good time to celebrate the many successes and contributions of our diverse immigrant communities.
Crimes of War
MASS VIOLENCE - In just the past few years, we have witnessed mass violence directed at innocent people in many places:
The Buffalo Shooting and the Great Replacement
DOMESTIC TERROR - On May 14, 2022, Payton Gendron, of Conklin, NY, drove some 200 miles to Buffalo armed with a high-powered assault rifle and bulletproof body-armor and killed 10 people and wounded three others; 11 victims were Black and two white.
How Young Workers Are Unionizing Starbucks
UNION RESOLVE - At only 19 years old, Joe Thompson is one of the youngest lead organizers with Starbucks Workers United (SWU), the umbrella organization at the forefront of one of the most exciting labor successes of the last few years.
The US Supreme Court Has a Very Serious Clarence Thomas Problem
SCOTUS - As I have written before, the U.S. Supreme Court is facing a crisis of legitimacy driven by a growing public perception that the court is a political institution dominated by conservative activists masquerading as impartial guardians of the Constitution.
Where Are the Goddamn Men?
GUEST COMMENTARY - For 50 years now, people have told desperate, heart-breaking stories about what it was like to search for an abortion in the days before Roe v. Wade.
Blame Profit-Hungry Corporations For Inflation
INFLATION WATCH - The problem with our so-called "free market" is that it's not free for you and me.
The GOP Has Gone Bull-Goose Bonkers, Where Are the Democrats?
GUEST COMMENTARY - I think we can now say the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull-goose bonkers.