How to Humiliate a Narcissist
Now that Kamala Harris has handily dismantled Donald Trump in a presidential debate, one question leaps to the fore: What took so long? Chris Lehmann September 11, 2024 Read the full article here The...
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Walz Rips Vance as ‘Pathetic’ for Asking Nation to Accept Mass Shootings as ‘Fact of Life’
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said children across the United States “deserve better” than his Republican opponent JD Vance’s response to the latest school shooting, after the GOP senator from Ohio said at...
The Paradox of Progress for Black Americans
As the country moves rapidly toward the 2024 elections, Black Americans are experiencing the best economic conditions they’ve had in generations. Record low unemployment rates, record low poverty rates, and record high levels of...
JD Vance’s solution for child care costs? Make grandma watch the kids
How can working families manage the sky-high cost of child care? Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has a plan for that—make grandma and grandpa do it instead. “So one of the ways that...
Donald Trump’s Misogyny Is About Power
Donald Trump’s supporters in search of apparel have no shortage of options. On Etsy, for example, they can choose from a variety of T-shirt designs, some with a crude message. “Say No to the...
Why Did Progressive Democrats Support Joe Biden?
As Kamala Harris defines her candidacy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others will have few options to change it After weeks of debate about the viability of President Joe Biden’s run for reëlection, the mounting pressure...
NYSDEC is not living up to its environmental justice standards
New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently hosted an “environmental justice listening session” in Niagara Falls, inviting the public to express its concerns. DEC’s representative described the agency as a nationwide leader...
How Conservatives Are Plotting to Gut Americans’ Labor Rights
Kumho Tire herded workers into anti-union brainwashing sessions, fired union supporters, including a mother of seven who was eight months pregnant, and plastered the plant with anti-labor literature during the workers’ drive to join the United...
As police kill Native Americans on this reservation, families left afraid and in the dark
Van Dean Scott couldn’t believe what the Rosebud tribal police were telling him. “The cops came to my house from across the road,” he recalled, “and said, ‘Do you have a son named Derrick...
While Trump and Biden pursue political gains, they must not leave escalating polarisation unaddressed
Despite evidence that the shooting involving Trump was an assassination attempt, Black folks everywhere are reluctant to believe it. Wayne Washington July 13, 2024 Read the full article here The Root