The Conservative Dream to Force a Constitution Do-Over
An Article 5 convention could put cherished American constitutional rights up for grabs. A group of deep-pocketed, dark-moneyed conservatives is...
Category: Justice
Florida’s Assault on One Small Progressive Public College
Gov. DeSantis wants to remake the New College of Florida along the lines of Hillsdale College, a private, conservative bastion...
Book Bans Are Escalating in American Classrooms, Enforced by a MAGA ‘Vice Squad’
The chaos over acceptable books is a dress rehearsal for what conservatives really want: public school privatization. Culture War in...
Uvalde Confidential: Police Training is All About Self-Preservation
‘Better to be judged by 12 than carried by six.’ Tragedy in Uvalde, Texas We’ve all shed tears for the...
Malarkey! The Jan. 6 Rioters Aren’t ‘Wasting Away’ in Jails
Their charges and sentences have been lenient compared to the BLM George Floyd protesters, many of whom are doing hard...
Houston Astros and Pete Rose Collide at Home Plate
The cheating Houston Astros get off with a wrist-slap, while Pete Rose, a man with a gambling addiction, gets the...
Biden Takes Aim at the Gig Economy
Gig workers lack safety net protections, while internet-based companies save on labor costs and receive a government bailout. Prologue The...
Stealing Black Land
Since 1910, African Americans have been stripped of 90% of farmland that was legally their own. Prologue: 40 Acres and...
Baseball Negro Leagues: He was called the ‘Cuban Babe Ruth’
Or maybe Babe Ruth was the ‘American Cristobal Torriente.’ If I should see [Cristobal] Torriente walking up the other side...
Some Dare Call It Treason
With impeachment acquittal likely, there are other remedies to hold Trump accountable. Impeachment For those of you wishing upon a...
DeVos Hand in Rigging School Pandemic Relief Formula Gets Caught in Cookie Jar
The education secretary is also gifting private and Christian schools with PPP funds while public schools go begging. A federal...
Right Wing Terrorism Thrives in Trump’s America
What kind of president or human being cheers on gun-toting racist agitators? Prologue On April 19, 1995, a truck packed...
Trump Trying to Prevent Fair Census Count
The president wants to stop the counting a month before deadline so he can ‘gerrymander the nation.’ If the postal...
Further Evidence of a Post Office Coup d’Etat
It’s painfully obvious that Trump is trying to steal this election. Prologue I cannot imagine a more crucial time when...
Quitting World Health Organization Risks American Lives
Predictably petulant Trump tries to shift blame for his pathetic COVID response. To do this in the middle of a...
‘Cash Register Justice’ and Police Brutality
You want criminal justice reform? Resist the resurgence of debtors’ prisons. As the rallies and protests across the country grow...
Donald Trump’s Evil Plot to Destroy the Post Office
With all this talk about ‘heroes,’ it is the postal worker who stands tall. Neither snow nor rain nor heat...
Philadelphia Free Library Latest to Go ‘Fine-Free’
Waiving overdue fines celebrates the notion that libraries mean more than a transaction. One of the special things about libraries...
New Stalking Horse in VA Privatization Shakedown
Bill would enable ‘third lane’ private sector care without VA oversight or scientific scrutiny. Sneak Attack You can almost imagine...
The Cover-Up of the Biggest Disaster in Music History
A vault said to contain a half-million song masters of the Universal Music Group went up in flames 11 years...
Net Neutrality Not Dead Yet
The underlying conflict is a familiar one: the role of government to enforce fairness. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”...
America Unwillingly Reliving Its Racist Past
We have a president of the United States who’s a racist. Most Americans aren’t buying his lies. We’ve been through...
Philadelphia Ended Cash Bail for Minor Offenses and the Sky Didn’t Fall
New crusading DA Larry Krasner believes bail reform actually makes the city safer. And now he has proof. So you’re...
Hey Trump, Kamala Harris Has Your Number
While California AG, Kamala Harris put the hammer on for-profit college scams like Trump U. Amid the endless stream of...
Like the Berlin Wall, Trump’s Fetish Is an Affront to Humanity
The only ‘border emergency’ is inside the White House. Let’s be clear: There is no “border emergency.” Our country is...
AG Nominee William Barr to Rehash Uranium One Sham
Facts don’t get in the way of right wing mythology. Just ask Hillary Clinton. With Jeff Sessions out the door...
PHILLY SPECIAL: DA Larry Krasner Reviving Prosecutor’s Moral Compass
Krasner is changing the culture by emphasizing fairness over notches on a prosecutor’s belt. The prisons of this country are...
Not ‘Happy,’ Trump? Pharrell Still Wants His Song Back
Pharrell Williams joins a long line of artists infuriated by Republican misuse of their songs. The campaign season isn’t really...
Teachers Inciting ‘Blue Wave’
With midterms looming, Americans can show their overwhelming support for public education. Isn’t it time the largest profession in the...
VA Update: Are the ‘Mar-a-Lago Three’ VA’s Shadow Rulers?
Trump’s cronies at his Florida country club have no US military or government experience. Well, it seems Donald Trump is...
VA Privatization: Conservatives’ Dream, Veterans’ Nightmare
This veteran, along with just about every veterans group out there, oppose this scheme. You know the Trump administration is...
Trump’s Smears of Immigrants Recall ‘Red Scare’ a Century Ago
It turns out ICE isn’t the only goon squad in American history. Here’s the latest outrage: LinkedIn published a Seattle...
Private Prisons the Only Winner in Immigrant Children Tragedy
An industry that makes money when more people are imprisoned and imprisoned longer. It is still breaking America’s heart. Fathers,...
How Background Checkers Have the Goods on One of Three Americans
End up on one of their lists and you could be BRANDED for life! You might have heard of a...
California Gives Middle Finger to Sanctuary City Hypocrisy
States’ Rights backer Jeff Sessions comes to California preaching Federal Supremacy The irony wasn’t subtle. Not at all. In...
Trump’s Phony Embrace of Dreamers to Come with a Grim Price Tag
White House and Congressional tormentors of Dreamers want to turn back the clock on immigration. At a press briefing on...
Overturning Net Neutrality a Solution in Search of a Problem
‘All internet traffic shall be treated equally’ – Trump’s FCC begs to differ What a delightful quirk to the continuing...
A Glimpse Into the Fanatical Hatred of ‘Alt-Right’ Trolling
Enabled by a president willing to tweet violent images, right wing trolls go after a Montana Jewish woman and get...
Civil Asset Forfeiture Update: States Shunning ‘Policing for Profit’
While the Feds Continue to Seize Staggering Amounts from Innocent People, Many States Are Taking Measures to Moderate The Practice...
Unions Are a Valued Partner in The Resistance
Plagued by Republican Attempts to Destroy Them, Labor Unions are Employing Creative Ways to Equate Workers’ Rights with The Common...
Conservative Voter Suppression Group Humbled in Philadelphia Courtroom
Ignorance of the Law Almost Brings Sanctions Against ACLU ‘Alternative’ A conservative advocacy group that tried mightily to purge incarcerated felons from...
Republicans Stir Voter Intimidation Pot
Meanwhile, Kansas Secretary of State Continues Quest for White Voters Oblivious to traditions and core principles that make American democracy...
Don’t Dare Say You’re Not Voting!
Let’s Not Forget the Hard-Fought Battles Over Voting Rights I’m sure you’ve heard this is various forms: respected progressive columnist Robert...
Uber and the ‘Sharing Economy’ – It’s Complicated
American Companies Have Mostly Forsaken Their Share of the Safety Net At first blush, it has all the pedigree of a...
Colorado Student Protests Force School Board Recall Election
Students & Teachers To Get Last Word Against Conservative Rewriting of History Curriculum Well, it wasn’t like this. Oh, them...
Solar Battle Heats Up in Arizona
Fossil Fuel Group Declares War on Solar Users You’d think that in a state where there are anywhere between...
Southern Poverty Law Center Takes On Alabama’s Debtors’ Prisons
Though Banned by the US Constitution, Debtors’ Prisons Are Making a Comeback in Certain States Conjure up a visual of a...
Nickeled and Dimed in Saint Loo
‘Policing for Profit’ Makes for Tense Community Relations Is Corporate State Tax Avoidance an Underlying Cause? First off, a big fat...
PA Town Defies Corbett Crony Plan to Privatize Its Public Schools
Parents & Teachers Rally the York Community to Vote Down ‘Charter Charade’ The plan had a devious certainty to it....
Innocence Project Trusts DNA Science to Free Over 300 Wrongfully Convicted
Mob-Cop Frame-up Netted NYC Man $9.9M The noble work of the Innocence Project reentered my bandwidth recently with the premier...
Civil Asset Forfeiture: Un-American Greed
Cops patrol vulnerable out-of-towners, looking for money and jewelry. How can this happen in America? When I worked for a...
Pension Funds Abductions Would make a Jailed Mob Boss Proud
The ongoing efforts by conservative groups to weaken public pension funds would probably coax a smile from former Philadelphia/South Jersey...
Black Friday and Walmart’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
By Andrew Goutman (November 18, 2014) Walmart employees are promising another round of protests on Black Friday, 2014, over the...
