Bill Blum: Welcome to the New Era of Rightwing Judicial Supremacy
The U.S. Supreme Court has entered a legal fantasy world: advancing a regressive political agenda free from democratic accountability.
Robert Reich: The Most Dangerous Looming Supreme Court Decision You Never Heard Of
As this Supreme Court shows, the future of our democracy is not guaranteed.
Thom Hartmann: A Personal Apology to Young Americans for Failing to Stop Ronald Reagan
I’m so embarrassed to have to say this, but my generation let this happen. And now our chance is here to stop the Republican onslaught once and for all.
Rebecca Gordon: In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing
I still hate electoral politics, but you don’t always get to choose the terrain you’re fighting on. Through its machinations at the federal, state, and county level, the Republican Party has been all but screaming its plans to steal the next presidential election.
Baron Wormser: Conspiracy and Character
Not so strangely, the events of January 6 have a Roman cast to them as a vengeful, self-styled emperor urges the plebeians to attack the Capitol
Ellen McGrath Smith: An American Dream
I dreamed I bought a gun. At a Rite-Aid.
It was heavy, brightly colored, a girl-gun.
Abby Zimet: Small Bodies Drop
The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population, and 46% of its guns; its gun violence is soaring, with over 45,000 dead in shootings in 2020, an increase of 35%; gun violence is now the leading cause of death among young people; there have been two dozen school shootings so far this year.
Jenny Breen: The ‘Raw Judicial Power’ of Samuel Alito Is an Attack on Dignity, Autonomy, and Progress
What is the end game here for the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority? It’s not pretty.
Abby Zimet: Rape as Opportunity
Despite the longtime support of up to three-quarters of Americans for that fundamental right, GOP lawmakers have introduced 536 bills in 42 states to restrict or outright ban abortion, all in lethal preparation for SCOTUS’ anticipated reversing or at least gutting of Roe when it hears arguments on Mississippi’s post-15-week abortion ban in June.
Lisa Graves: Who Bankrolled Ginni Thomas as She Sought to Overthrow the 2020 Election?
And who funded the $1.5 million ad buy attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson and promoting justice Thomas?
Thom Hartmann: Like a Bizarre Johnny Appleseed, Trump Has Planted the Seeds of Extreme Antisocial Behavior—And It Cannot Be Ignored
We’ve always had authoritarians among us, but they’ve been given an opening they never had before.
Abby Zimet: Still Ripping Things Up, Still Bewilderingly Roaming Free
Somehow, brazen crimes by the former fascist-in-chief keep surfacing. (Feel free to stop now if you understandably don’t want to read any more about this affront to humanity. Lamentably, it’s … Continue reading
Stephanie L. Harper: A Crown Most Unroyal
Some humans really don’t object to dying
as much as they hold dear an asshat’s right
to choose to spread disease over complying
Thom Hartmann: Will US Turn Away From Fascism and Abandon This GOP Death Cult Before It’s Too Late?
The current Republican Party is unsustainable: the public is both exhausted & increasingly sickened by Republicans who appear to be devoid of any principles whatsoever.
