Category Archives: Opinion

In a world grown numb to the spectacle of state power bearing down on the individual, two images flicker across the global conscience this week with a chilling symmetry. One is the body of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, left bleeding on a Minnesota avenue after a barrage of federal gunfire. The other is theContinue reading “Echoes of injustice and state violence in a ‘free’ nation and in a tyrannical theocracy”

By James J. Devine The federal government has sprinted past the $1 trillion deficit mark just five months into the fiscal year, a staggering sum that nonetheless arrives with a confusing twist: red ink is flowing at a slightly slower pace than last year’s record-setting gush. New data from the Joint Economic Committee, released Friday,Continue reading “Trump tops $1 trillion deficit, trips on trade, and tumbles toward trouble”

By James J. Devine They talked about World War III for so long that it became a joke. A punchline. Something for doomsday preppers and novelists. Jokes have a way of dying when the first missiles fly, and on a Saturday in late February 2026, the joke died in Tehran. The operation had a name,Continue reading “Operation Epic Failure: Trump’s Iran gamble unleashed a war he promised would never come”

It was a little past dinnertime on the East Coast when the news came across the wire: the bombs were falling on Iran. The President of the United States, alongside the Prime Minister of Israel, had made his decision. And with that decision, a great and terrible machine of state was set in motion, aContinue reading “Trump has opened Pandora’s box, but there’s no hope inside.”

by Ismael Cid-Martinez and Valerie Wilson More than 60 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement helped generate the moral impetus and political will for U.S. lawmakers to pass sweeping legislation to combat the oppressive legacies of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the many expressions of racial discrimination in the United States.Continue reading “Six ways the Trump administration tried to erase MLK’s legacy in 2025”

By James J. Devine The veneer of invincibility shattered on Friday. For the better part of a year, President Donald Trump had operated as if the normal rules of American governance did not apply to him. He bulldozed through congressional prerogatives, dismissed judicial oversight as a nuisance, and treated the Constitution as a suggestion. TheContinue reading “Today’s judicial ruling it the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s unfettered dictatorship”

By Benjamin Santer Whether the president and his supporters like it or not, the United States is part of a complex, interconnected world. Global supply chains, commerce, and economies are intricately intertwined. Countries are connected electronically via the internet, email, and social media. Humans are also linked through a shared global climate system, which influences—andContinue reading “By quitting 66 international organizations, Trump turns his back on science, facts, reason”

By James J Devine Let us dispense with the fiction-based political football concerning Bad Bunny. The annual paroxysms of outrage over the Super Bowl halftime show are not a defense of culture, but a tantrum thrown by those who believed the empire would only export, never import; who believed the projection of power came withoutContinue reading “The ugly Americans have spoken on the Super Bowl’s halftime show. What they said is wrong.”

The machinery of justice, designed to turn with the heavy, deliberate gears of impartial fact, has seized. At the center of the deadlock is the killing of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, shot in her SUV by a federal immigration officer on Jan. 7. Now, the Trump administration is employing every lever toContinue reading “Gears of justice commandeered as part of the latest White House criminal coverup”

By James J Devine I was a little surprised to read that, “No Democratic governor has become president, or even won the nomination, since Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and Republicans haven’t had a governor-turned-president since George W. Bush.” That’s more like something one finds in a treatise on political astrology from the cult ofContinue reading “NY Times political analysis about the presidency leaves a lot to be desired”

by Max McCoy, Kansas Reflector When the attack came, Black Kettle believed it must have been a mistake. The old chief gathered a 33-star United States flag that had been given to him a few years before as a sign of friendship with the federal government and, along with a white flag, hoisted them aboveContinue reading “American soldiers have long faced unlawful orders. They need courage and our support to resist.”