Itās long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in…
Some Predictions
Watching the news recently, I was struck by a stark contrast between pure good and sheer evil.Ā The pure good: hundreds…
Responding to Ta-Nehesi Coates
An increase in the scale, frequency, and intensity of extreme weather is precisely one of the things that climate scientists have long warned about
Reflections on 21st Century U.S. Capitalist Racism
A recent Washington Post and ABC poll finds that just 37 percent of Americans think that the Democratic Party āstands for something.āĀ …
Reflections on James Foremanās āLocking Up Our Ownā
It is silly to expect anything else at āPāBS, which depends heavily on corporate, including big oil money, contributions
U.S historians have no doubt been having a field day with Trumpās reported clueless comments on U.S. history earlier this year. The presidentās moronic take on the nationās past was front-page news in liberalsā and academicsā favorite newspaper, the New York Times
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