The following is adapted from an opinion piece in Common Dreams by Thom Hartmann. Earlier this week we talked about a bipartisan bill that would overhaul the United States Postal Service, see here. What follows MORE
By Angus King, Senator from Maine When I was Governor of Maine, I used to have a standing bet with my fellow Independent Governor, Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, about which of our states would have MORE
“In short: We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time,” they wrote. Retired two-star U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton co-authored a recent op-ed about the fear that a MORE
From the co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project, Erin Kissane: On and around major holidays, thousands of people whose labor makes testing and data-reporting pipelines function go home. As a result, testing slows, and reporting MORE
Manchin’s blockade of the bill is poised to have serious, real-world consequences. If passed, the legislation would have extended the expanded child tax credit, which was distributed to families across the country in monthly payments MORE
During the 2016 presidential campaign, the Republican Party was embarrassed when a tape of Donald Trump was released in which the then-GOP nominee saw heard bragging about sexual assault with the memorable lines “grab ’em by the pussy” and MORE
The 2021 election reinforced the difficult path that lies ahead for Democrats in their efforts to keep unified control of Washington, particularly with President Biden’s numbers having declined. And the jockeying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination began MORE
The 18-year-old who shot three men at a protest took the stand and resorted to a tried-and-true strategy for white men in trouble. What Kyle Rittenhouse displayed in a Kenosha, Wisconsin, courtroom this week as he MORE
It has been more than two weeks since the House voted to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for defying a Congressional subpoena, but Attorney General Merrick Garland has yet to take any action against Donald Trump’s former top adviser—and evincing little MORE
All is not so happy at the happiest place on Earth. The guests of the Magic Kingdom are restless. Despite reopening more than six months ago, Disney World and Disneyland have yet to restart their MORE
The emotionally and morally bankrupt 45th *Resident of the United States issued a statement on the death of General Colin Powell barely 24 hours after his passing. Powell, 84, died on Monday after serving as MORE
Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). What most intrigued them was its resemblance to our MORE
T.S. Eliot wrote that the world ends “not with a bang but a whimper,” but I fear our great nation is careening toward a third manner of demise: descent into lip-blubbering, self-destructive idiocy. How did MORE
Perhaps it’s time to scrap the insinuation that Mike Pence was the hero who bravely saved democracy on January 6 when he refused Trump’s relentless press to overturn the states’ electoral votes in the 2020 MORE
Meanwhile, Sean Spicer, also among the Trump loyalists being shown the door, is threatening to sue the Biden administration. More than six months after taking office, President Joe Biden is finally doing what he probably should’ve done MORE
The ongoing devastation wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic creates an understandable allure for a quick-fix or magic-bullet solutions. But it is painstaking scientific testing — not magical thinking — that reveals what works and how MORE
Germ theory denialist Facebook group went from 147 members in April 2020 to 18.4K now. Listen up, sheeple: COVID-19 doesn’t exist. Viruses don’t cause disease, and they aren’t contagious. Those doctors and health experts who MORE
As the U.S. women’s soccer team was earning a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Donald Trump was reaching for relevance when he claimed that “everything that is woke goes bad,” which includes “our soccer MORE
Rooting against Olympians, scoffing at Capitol police, broaching civil war — meet today’s conservative movement. The Olympics are typically a boom time for jingoism: patriotic fervor heightening among Americans of all stripes with each gold MORE
The hilarious 2006 film “Idiocracy” offers a vivid depiction of American politics. The movie is classified as a sci-fi comedy, but it is more like a searing documentary. It almost perfectly describes America’s crisis of MORE
“A poll on the 52nd anniversary of the moon landing shows a majority of Republicans now reject science, sparking a COVID-19 comeback.” When the three-man mission had blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in MORE
In a Washington Post op-ed, George Conway says we should be thankful for Trump’s legal team for holding the former guy back from accomplishing his attempted self-coup. No matter how many cultists Trump developed, he MORE
Donald Trump’s oldest son is flogging videos of himself online, while Ivanka is keeping an unusually low profile By Arwa Mahdawi, Guardian columnist. My father, you won’t be surprised to hear, is not a billionaire MORE
While most Americans go about their calmer post-Trumpian lives under the Biden administration, a significant number of their fellow citizens live in a different reality entirely. For them, a world of dystopian intensity has just MORE
While the CDC has relaxed mask guidance, the mask wars are not over. The CDC says vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks in most cases, but unvaccinated should continue to wear masks. Of the MORE