Southern whites who wanted to keep Jim Crow intact had plenty of reasons to steadily desert the Democratic Party and join the GOP starting...

When we talk about the immigration rate, we're really talking about our most fundamental fears and beliefs.  Those these instinctual r...

It is precisely by acknowledging ALL the different forms of suffering felt in Late Modernism - even those who react to that suffering in h...

The rot afflicting the current G.O.P. (as led by Movement Conservatives and Trump) is comprehensive — moral, intellectual, political and r...

Helpful public reactions when [insert name of PUBLIC FIGURE HERE] is exposed for sexual harassment or assault: 1. Wow. I’m really glad ins...

I’ve seen more “ why should Al Franken resign when Republicans elected a man like Donald Trump and Roy Moore is still in his senate race ”...

In my youth, Fundamentalist Evangelicals told me that “liberals” and the “gay agenda” would one day push for acceptance of pedophilia. ...

"The international community must break its shameful silence and use all possible means to lift the blockade on Yemen immediately,...

Conservative Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore (who has forcefully and consistently rebuked Trumpism from the beginning) comes co...

It seems like every day, we see headlines about Fundamentalist Christians in the US saying and doing some truly unimaginable, abhorrent th...

So it’s been a year since Trump won the election. Looking back, I can see I was naive in my hope that - despite the evidence of four decad...

“There is no group in the United States less attached to its professed ideals or more eager for its own exploitation than religious conser...

Imperial overreach is often evidenced by endless and financial black hole militarism abroad and inadequate resources for disasters at home...

“Is Trump playing 3-dimensional chess, going off the rails, or just acting on instinct — or all of the above? Is he serious? Is there any ...

It’s a tribute to the NFL’s ability to drape itself in the flag that few people even realizes that – prior to 2009 – players being on the ...

“In broad outlines, the recent Republican efforts at tax reform is a lot like health care. In both cases, Republicans have spent years ge...

Dallas sportscaster and Vietnam veteran Dale Hansen recently gave an extremely well-crafted analysis of those who say NFL players are "...

Trump's tweets don't age well, but that's bound to happen when one says whatever pops into one's mind at any given time st...

I've studied U.S. History and Politics my entire life. It was only when watching tonight's episode of Vietnam by Ken Burns that I ...

Where did all the concern over deficits go? After 2 years of the media lamenting , worrying and feigning outrage over the cost of Bernie...

^ Racist tweet calling for the genocide of Hasidic Jews made by twitter user that President Trump retweeted a video from today On Sunday...

The time after 09/11 asked us a lot of questions, and I hate to say, we came up with a lot of the wrong answers. The wound created by ...

The attack spawned endless wars that we were told would export democracy abroad, with the result of degrading it at home . Over the past...

Donald Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions tried to sell the killing of DACA with junk economics, claiming that the Dreamers are ta...

Arpaio represents in miniature what President Trump would like to be more maximally - an authoritarian not constrained by the rule of law....

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Trump's line of reasoning is confused. It conflates history with commemoration and brackets the Founding Fathers with the Confederate ...

Since 2008, the body count from numerous acts of violent right-wing terrorism continued to rise steadily with very little media interest, ...

Black Lives Matter is not a hate group. The perception that it is racist illustrates the problem of our society as a whole still not accep...

Online vigilantism may temporarily satiate our need to feel like we've done something to combat forces of hate, but the object of vi...

Trump is for some reason reluctant to identify hate groups as being the causal agent of the problem, instead resorting to "What About...

As a society, we've endured other times when the forces of hatred and violence have reared their heads.  We have emerged as a more jus...

The key question with all of President Trump's inconsistencies and self-contradictions is this: Is he lying or is he unable to separat...

Much of the serious reporting that does exist often presents refugees as the problem, rather than displacement and its drivers. The narrat...

I don't care what party Trump represents. If we were six months into a Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio administration, I'd have plenty of ...

Trump’s impulsiveness and self-absorption make him incapable of thinking beyond his self-interest. It is hard to think of any presidenti...

The country is headed towards a constitutional crisis.  When will Republicans collectively say "enough?" Good question, however ...

In 1969, Life magazine published a famous edition consisting entirely of portraits of the Americans who died in Vietnam that week. Many su...

Children are better than the stereotypes we reduce them to in order to insult others. The 45th president of America: a man who revels in...

There was a time when conservatives talked about “integrity,” “honesty,” and “personal responsibility” and may have truly meant it. That s...

A Fox News show co-host said that claims about warmest year are misleading due to the margin of error. Scientists say evidence proves he i...

The assessment of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies is that Russia not only tried to influence the election by hacking and releasing emails, b...

President Donald Trump can’t be counted on to give accurate information to Americans when violent acts are unfolding abroad. The full ar...

Former lobbyists from some of the most contentious industries under Trump are given the freedom to influence policy making in those very s...

It was religious leaders in the South who solved the puzzle on Republicans’ behalf, converting white angst over lost cultural supremacy in...

When it comes to families on SNAP with kids, a majority — 55 percent – were bringing home wages, according to USDA. The problem is, those ...

Rev. William Barber II announced last week that he will step down as president of the North Carolina NAACP and lead a new national initiat...

"ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said on a press call with reporters that she canceled Last Man Standing for the same ...

"The Justice Department is appointing former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the growing probe into Russi...