Opinions
One of the Boldest Steps to Close the Racial Wealth Divide: a $3,200 Investment for Every Baby Born into Poverty
Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. But over 150 years later, discriminatory public policies have prevented African Americans from closing the racial wealth divide in this country they helped build.
Being ‘Woke’ Is an American Value
As Scottish literary giant Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.”
Extremism is Bad for Business
As Disney learned, supporting statehouse extremists will come back to haunt you. Consumers must teach more businesses that lesson — and fast.
DAVIS: The Small Colorado Town at the Center of Far-Right Plans for American Schools
Twenty miles northwest of Colorado Springs, nestled amongst the conifers behind the first upslopes of the Front Range, the vanguard of a shadowy, well-funded national movement has taken over a school district. Now, the district is being used as a base of operations from which to open a new front in the right wing’s decades-old war on public education.
The Shomer: First They Ban The Books. Then They Ban The People
“An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.”
A Surprising Win for Animal Rights — and Democracy
The Supreme Court sided with a voter-backed animal welfare rule over the corporate lobbyists who opposed it.
There’s No Debate Over Debt
If the GOP cared about debt, they’d stop cutting rich people’s taxes and give the Pentagon a haircut. So what’s this really about?