THE VIEW FROM HERE - Elections are beneficial when two situations coincide:
VOICES
Only Mass Protests Can Save Abortion Rights
ROE V WADE - As the ridiculously right-wing United States Supreme Court stands poised to defy majority public opinion by reversing its 1973 Roe v. Wade (hereafter “Roe”) decision and thereby stripping away women’s half-century constitutional right to an abortion,
Neo-Fascist Challenge: A War Against Blacks and People of Color
WHITE SUPREMACY - Civil rights activist and philosopher Cornel West called out former President Donald Trump for leading a “hate campaign” against Black and brown people.
Made in America: School Shootings, Psycho Killers...and Action Over Ignorance
The Doctor is IN: Let me start by proclaiming that I am a physician who supports the Second Amendment, the First Amendment, Law Enforcement, and also science over feelings with respect to public health.
If Roe v. Wade is Overturned, Abortion Rights Will Be in the Hands of the States
UP TO THE STATES - Last year, David Pepper was so frustrated by the atrophied state of U.S. democracy that he tweeted a riff on a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “States are the laboratories of democracy.”
What Are We Doing? Why Are We Here?
VIDEO - Senator Chris Murphy delivers an emotional address to the Senate regarding the Texas school shooting.
Little Kids Going To School
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Some people argue that it is disrespectful to the dead to use such a tragedy to score political points.
We’re Telling the Wrong Story About Race in America
GUEST COMMENTARY - It's been a week since a mentally ill racist murdered 10 people, most of them Black Americans, in a Buffalo supermarket.
Tucker Carlson’s ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Comes From An Anti-American Nazi
GUEST COMMENTARY - Before a hate-filled 18-year-old murdered 10 and wounded 3 African Americans in Buffalo on May 14, he penned a rambling screed about replacement theory.
More Thoughts, More Prayers and More School Shootings
GUN VIOLENCE - In the 23 years since Columbine, at least 554 students, educators, and school staff have been victims of school shootings, according to a Washington Post report.
Cancel Student Loan Debt. Bail Out Regular People.
ECONOMIC RELIEF - I borrowed money to pay for college. Like 45 million other Americans who did the same, I owe student loan debt.
What Biden Gets Right
GUEST COMMENTARY - In 1936 at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, Franklin Delano Roosevelt told a cheering crowd that the only way to redeem the country from the Great Depression was by defeating the “economic royalists” who controlled the economy and sought “control over government itself.”