When President Donald Trump first announced that he had ordered the Pentagon to attack fishing boats and speedboats on the high seas which he said carried dangerous drugs destined for willing buyers in the United States, many of us who monitor the government for its indifference to the ...
So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. That is a frequently voiced charge by partisan Democrats, and a fear of many ambivalent voters who find many of Trump's policies ...
Joe McCarthy was famously undone by the rhetorical questions at a 1954 congressional hearing: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" If the same queries were directed to Candace Owens at such a forum, she'd sail on unperturbed — since she has ...
The skilled trades have become hot of late. That has many young people dropping plans to attend college. Meanwhile, some desk-bound professionals are said to gaze longingly at nearby construction sites. They daydream about trading spreadsheets for tool belts. They imagine becoming plumbers, ...
When I first saw Jesse Jackson, like most Americans, it was on television. He was there when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. I later witnessed Jackson giving the commencement address at North Carolina Central University Law School where my sister Ruth was matriculating. My ...
Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the U.S. that cost more than a billion dollars last year – at an estimated total loss of $115 billion. The past three years have shattered previous records for such events. Scientists earlier this month said that we are closer than ever to the point after which global heating cannot be stopped. Yet Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, recently announced the elimination of the Obama-era endangerment finding that underpins ...
