What a surprise. The reactionary white party that’s terrified of teaching Black history is also reluctant to remove the Confederate statues in the U.S. Capitol. In a House vote yesterday, nearly two-thirds of the chamber’s Republicans voted to defend...
Certain white people, most notably twits like Tucker Carlson, are so afraid of acknowledging America’s racist track record that their only play is to lie and deny. The other day, during another Tucker rant about critical race theory (the rabid right’s new...
It’s heartening that President Biden is broadly popular – the latest Fox News poll puts his job-approval rating at 56 percent – but justice requires that the lawless liars who sought to block his victory be punished for defiling democracy. Justice...
The incremental goosestep toward a uniquely American fascism proceeded apace yesterday, when Senate Republicans predictably refused to even allow debate on a federal voting rights bill that would save democracy itself. You know the drill by now. Senate Democrats...
I don’t pretend to be an expert on the Catholic Church, but I can sniff out hypocrisy. And whenever you put the Catholic Church in the same pew with hypocrisy…hoo boy, does it ever stink. But before we delve into the latest church farce – the budding effort by...
