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A quiet neighborhood- a dog barks in the distance. A mild breeze soothes the day’s anxieties. Dusk approaches, and with it, the looming curfew. The phone rings—a family member or friend checking in, ensuring you’re safe. This is the new normal: safety checks, a ritual born of necessity in uncertainContinue Reading

Opinion Editorial Since 2016, warning sirens have been sounding out about the existential threat to democracy in our beloved America. Until now, it seems it has fallen on deaf ears. Well, here we are. The mobsters have taken over the United States. Are we happy? Are we cheering this newContinue Reading

Jaelle Terrell The Supreme Court ruling against LGBTQ rights is a blow. It is a setback. MSNBC reported that this decision “made millions of Americans poorer. Remember the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” It’s not aContinue Reading

At a sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind; and it’s not how many tons of steel produced every day, or how many hours they work. It’s where each of them falls on the plant’s seniority list. ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill,Continue Reading

President Trump issued an unexpected and typically uninformed…well…stupid, executive order Thursday night creating a federal task force to investigate the U.S. Postal Service’s finances, including its pricing and workforce costs. “The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout,” the executive orderContinue Reading

Despite my daughter constantly telling me that I’m not old, (and that my articles are too damn long) I have been on this earth for a lot of cycles around the sun. I remember when the news meant Walter Cronkite (the Most Trusted Man in America). I remember the chaosContinue Reading

Just as Herbert Hoover, the last Republican “businessman” did, President Trump and the GOP has implemented isolationism, personal enrichment, and a gross ignorance of knowledge about governmental economics, into a death spiral for the U.S., in the world leadership role. Incidentally, Hoover also had an all-Republican Congress at his disposal.Continue Reading

I ’ve been a critic of President Obama and Eric Holder’s decision to ultimately not prosecute any of the major (or even minor) perpetrators involved in the 2007 housing crash ever since I started this website a couple of years after the actual 2007 Housing Crash. In fact, it wasContinue Reading

Dear Donald, I would like to personally express my gratitude to you, your staff, your wife-in-absentia, [Melania] your daughter-wife, [Ivanka] your Cabinet of (please pick all that apply) : bootlickers for managing to screw up the one thing that I never imagined would go down in such decisive flames atContinue Reading