Category: Guest Commentary

What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated by media silence.

As Congress slashes SNAP, more states need to step up to fill in the gap.

The attacks on Medicaid aren’t just policy choices — they’re signing people’s death certificates before they ever see a physician.

Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently.

Looking at males, aged 18-59, veterans are well over twice, maybe over three times as likely to be mass shooters compared with the group as a whole. And they shoot somewhat more fatally.

A shooter may believe that certain scapegoated types of people are a threat to his type of people.

If you’re going to claim that war is defensive and necessary, you have to have accepted that some people are inferior creatures with whom one cannot negotiate, who “only understand violence.” You have to pretend that wars happening in people’s cities and villages are on an ancient “battlefield” free of civilians.

The billionaire class has its sights set on an ignorant populace that would be more receptive to its morally bankrupt ideology.

Just as Sinclair Lewis predicted it’s wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

As someone nearly four years older than you, I can assure you that loss of grip is common in our cohort. Apparently it only gets worse.