Category Archives: Opinion

Russian dissident Alexey Navalny has displayed ferocious courage by speaking out against the ongoing war in Ukraine, exposing political corruption in the country, and offering a vision for a better future for Russia even as officials seek to keep him in prison for decades. His bravery is the kind of thing that once defined AmericanContinue reading “Russian dissident Alexey Navalny’s courage should inspire Americans”

by Edward Curtin It has been 55 years since Sen. Robert F. Kennedy stepped onto the presidential nominating stage to try to mend the massive breach that had opened in American society. The country was torn asunder by the Vietnam War, racism, poverty, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the soon-to-be assassination ofContinue reading “Professor calls Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘the candidate to heal the great divide’”

As former President Donald Trump gears up for a CNN town hall on May 10, one can’t help but wonder when other prominent figures will be given the same opportunity. Specifically, we are curious as to when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a respected figure in American politics, will be afforded a similar platform to addressContinue reading “When Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Have a Televised Town Hall on CNN?”

by Isaac Jiménez, New Jersey Monitor As cities nationwide see staggering housing prices and tenants priced out of metro regions, workers are fighting back. This week in Jersey City, residents spent five hours at a council meeting to demand that city officials give tenants a universal right to counsel to protect them from eviction, displacement, and neglectContinue reading “From Trenton to city hall, workers are demanding more”

by Michael Wald­­­­­man It’s a crucial moment for the rule of law in the United States. Donald Trump faces no fewer than four criminal investigations. Two are before a federal grand jury. One is unfolding in Fulton County, Georgia, where Trump was caught on tape asking Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to help him “find”Continue reading “Trump and the Rule of Law: Public office isn’t a shield from accountability”

Police say a woman from Hillsborough who fatally ran her husband over with a car in February 2023, is facing charges of death by auto in the killing of her husband but the facts of the case appear to suggest that she should be sent home and released from any criminal trial or another ordeal.Continue reading “Hillsborough woman who fatally ran over husband with car should be free”

A 67-year-old woman answered her front door at around 3:30 a.m. and found a stranger armed with a silver revolver who was pleading for help but she shot him dead with the 9mm handgun she was carrying after he “raised up both arms” and instead of decrying the abundance of deadly firearms in America, theContinue reading “Reggie Best is dead but Putnam County Sheriff is celebrating gun violence”

By Anita D. Sircar, MD My patient sat at the edge of his bed gasping for air while he tried to tell me his story, pausing to catch his breath after each word. The plastic tubes delivering oxygen through his nose hardly seemed adequate to stop his chest from heaving. He looked exhausted. He hadContinue reading “Op-Ed: COVID doctor is running out of compassion for the unvaccinated”

The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine will have grave consequences for Russia—political, economic, and cultural. However, contrary to the Kremlin’s thinking, Russia’s importance on the world stage, which is being rapidly reconsidered today, is in fact not so great. Modern Russia is beginning to fade into the past. Just a few years ago,Continue reading “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will have grave consequences for Russia”

President Joe Biden proposed including a $500 million emergency supplemental appropriation for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in the coming stopgap funding bill for 2023, to help households cope with high prices for home heating fuels as winter approaches. With prices high and more than 20 million U.S. families behind on their utilityContinue reading “Congress should appropriate $500 million for low-income energy program”

Roger Ailes, the media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign, created Fox News to distract Americans from information harmful to archconservative right-wing GOP political interests and it worked. For decades, Fox has provided distraction and cover for con artists parading as conservative politiciansContinue reading “They say ‘No News is Good News,’ but Fox News is Literally Not News”

by Stacy Mitchell, New Jersey Monitor Amazon and its lobbyists are claiming that passing Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s Big Tech bill would lead to the end of Prime, or at the very least, significantly impair the service. This is such an absurd, desperate lie. What the bill actually does is force Amazon to compete in waysContinue reading “If competition would kill Amazon Prime, maybe it’s not that great”

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the streets of Glasgow, dismissed the two-week UN climate conference as a “greenwashing festival.” This year’s COP26 seemed like a chaotic failure as world leaders made few advances in beating back the existential threat of global warming. Reflecting on the two weeks of intense climate negotiationsContinue reading “After UN climate conference failure, humanity is still on the road to hell”

by Robert Reich The former president’s attempted coup is not stopping. He still refuses to concede and continues to rile up supporters with his bogus claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Tens of millions of Americans believe him. Last Sunday, at a Republican event in Franklin, North Carolina, Congressman Madison Cawthorn, repeating Trump’s bigContinue reading “How Trump’s Attempted Coup Could Still Succeed”