Fracking the Media: Do We Have Too Many News Choices?
Read MoreDo shrinking and therefore dividing news sources sabotage our common understanding of reality and impede compromise? Might this spell the end of democracy?
What’s Caused America’s Widening Income Gap?
Here’s what American conservatives once supported.
The super-rich never had it so good. At least not since the late 19th Century, a reprehensible period in American history known as the Gilded Age when wealthy robber barons in mansions and plantations treated the working class like farm animals, and the government did next to nothing to help common people. In other words, unbridled capitalism and conservatism at its unapologetic worst.
Read MoreThe Ominous Parallels Between 2015 Kim Davis and 1963 George Wallace
In 1963, an elected public official named George Wallace openly defies federal law, denying equality.
Read MoreJustice over bigotry shall ultimately prevail in Kentucky.
But let us not forget the disgraced bigot who openly stood in defiance, blocking a public doorway, thwarting the U.S. Constitution, and obstructing the basic freedoms of others. Moreover, let us remember all those repugnant voices who joined in on the spectacle and openly defended such bigotry under the false pretenses of “religious freedom” and “states rights.”
Presumably the land of liberty and equality, America has witnessed this shameful moment before.
The Best Way to Honor Our War Dead on Memorial Day
Read MoreThis Memorial Day, the best way to honor our war dead is doing whatever it takes to prevent more deaths in the future.
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