If you’re looking for a little distraction from the news of the pandemic — something a little gossipy, but with a point at the end about how change happens in the world — this essay may soak up a few minutes. I’ll tell the story chronologically, starting a couple of …
Read More »
Climate and social justice advocates have long worked to connect the dots between flows of big money and the main players propping up the fossil fuel economy. As the climate movement pulls at the threads of old power structures, it’s found that the villains of the climate crisis are a …
Read More »
WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders was well on his way to winning the Democratic Party nomination … and then black voters had their turn. It began with Joe Biden‘s decisive victory in the South Carolina primary, where a strong turnout by a predominantly black electorate performed life support on Biden’s …
Read More »
Inevitability is in the air. Joe Biden scored a series of victories Tuesday night, building a delegate lead over Bernie Sanders and putting himself on course to become the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. Biden won by large margins in Mississippi and Missouri, where he was expected to do well. More …
Read More »
Mike Bloomberg is finally being vetted as a presidential candidate. It took years-old audio tweeted by a journalist, not attack ads released by his feckless Democratic competitors, to make it happen. But it’s long overdue. Podcast host Benjamin Dixon released previously obscure audio on Monday from a Bloomberg speaking engagement …
Read More »
One candidate claimed victory before a single vote was officially reported. Another released his own internal and incomplete election results. A surrogate for a third candidate cast doubt on the integrity of the vote. The state party tried to assure the public that the problems were “not a hack or …
Read More »
1. The candidate references Tom Brady. 2. The candidate drops the name of a local eatery (“So, I was eating the Hash Benny at the Red Arrow the other day…”). 3. Reporters (in vain) scan the crowd for African-American faces. 4. Reporters ask each other what “the ethanol of New Hampshire” is. 5. The phrase “right here in …
Read More »
On Wednesday, as it became clear that by day’s end he would become the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, Trump took to Twitter to call upon Americans to “Say a PRAYER!” His assumption, of course, was that if one were the praying type, then one would naturally …
Read More »
According to Rick Perry and Nikki Haley, we can thank God for bringing us, possibly, the most corrupt president America has ever seen. On Sunday, soon-to-be former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, told Fox News viewers that President Trump is “The Chosen One.” He hedged his statement by saying that …
Read More »
Democratic congressman and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith (D-Wash.), said Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) will “quite likely” and “without question” face an ethics investigation regarding new allegations that have surfaced this week regarding Nunes and Ukraine. MSNBC’s Joy Reid asked Smith whether or not the …
Read More »