American electoral politics was originally designed to make the franchise as powerful as possible for as many voters as possible, but now things come down to a tiny minority of voters living in just a few battleground states. Maybe the rest of us shouldn’t bother.
Perhaps a little late now that they have painted Russia into a corner, the United States and its allies are worried that president Vladimir Putin might resort to his nuclear arsenal to retaliate against sanctions and US military aid to Ukraine. But only one country has ever been insane enough to use nuclear weapons, not once but twice, each time against civilian targets on purpose. American scientists wanted to test the effect of the atomic bomb on a civilian city without any military infrastructure.
In the Old Testament Bible story, God demands that Abraham sacrifice his son Isaac. Imagine the shrink bills!
Americans hardly give a passing thought to the drone program that is unleashing death every single day in countries like Pakistan. What if the Pakistanis did the same exact thing to us?
Right-wing evangelical Christians struggle with the emergence of Morman Mitt Romney as the Republican frontrunner.
What kind of God lets hedge fund managers win the lottery? One in cahoots with the top 1%.
