Donald Trump has hardly spent any of his own money to run his presidential campaign, and is running at the top of the polls as a result of free media coverage. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, isn’t getting any traction, partly because he doesn’t say anything outrageous. Time to switch it up!
Donald Trump flirts with such fascist principles as discriminating against all Muslims on the basis of their religion and mass deportations. These are the kinds of policies that typically lead to concentration camps. The Donald’s death camps will be the classiest ever!
In an age of melting polar ice caps and banned chimneys, how does Santa Claus argue for himself as a legitimate myth?
Electoral democracy is a game dominated by diminished expectations. Year after year, we settle for candidates and feel relieved when disaster is averted by the election of a slightly less disastrous, yet still disastrous candidate.
The Supreme Court may soon rule in favor of an applicant to the University of Texas who claims she was rejected due to race-based affirmative action quotas. While it’s obviously unfair to discriminate against, say, a poor white student, we’re ignoring the broader issue: why is college tuition so expensive in the United States that it’s a scarce resource fought over between people of different races?
U.S. government officials are gearing up against what they call Islamic “extremism,” declaring extremism and “radicalism” enemies of the state while ignoring the extremism of their own policies.
According to the Pentagon, 1,367 soldiers lost all or part of their genitals in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001 and 2013. Bet that’s not something they tell you at the recruiting center.
The Islamic State wants to be a full-service nation-state. What would ISIS look like if it governed like a legitimate nation-state like the United States? Let’s take a look.
Most of the mainstream Republican Party presidential candidates advocate extreme positions on immigration, including mass deportations. They deny the reality of climate change science and evolution. They think torture is fine, oppose gay marriage, and remain silent about the murder of abortionists. Amid this shift to the right, some “moderate” Republicans say they’re still a legitimate voice within the party. But does it matter?
A Chicago policeman has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting a 17-year-old child over a year ago. Is it any wonder that black people avoid cops as much as possible?
