Politics and its Discontents

Take a couple of minutes to watch this searingly accurate assessment and indictment of the United States under Donald Trump. I did not hear ...

I wonder if Americans realize that is how their country is seen by the rest of the world , in no small measure thanks to their having electe...

Trevor Noah certainly has a way of putting things into perspective. H/t Marie Snyder (2/2) Trevor on George Floyd and the Minneapolis pr...

For one who naturally inclines toward dark brooding, these are not good times. But then, if people follow the news and keep themselves rea...

For some strange reason, this resonates with me:

“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather ...

For a nation that calls itself the greatest country on earth, the United States has a lot of growing up to do. That is the trenchant opini...

Few of us will forget the disdain with which the Harper regime regarded science, especially the science around climate change. Virtual embar...

From Facebook: Three Racists attack innocent Black man while yelling "Get out of my country!" Is this what they mean when they say...

Yesterday's post dealt with the challenges real journalism faces in this era of presidential prevarications and attacks on the media. ...

In this guest post, my good friend Dom offers a point of view well-worth serious consideration. In contrast to my post yesterday , in which ...

Given the times we live in, it is not enough to simply talk the progressive talk. Action is also required. The following two videos clearly ...