Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) is offering a resolution condemning Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for Islamaphobic rhetoric. “For a Member of Congress to repeatedly use hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric and Islamophobic tropes towards a Muslim colleague is dangerous. It has no place in our society and it diminishes the honor of the institution we serve in,†Pressley…
Calling the events of January 6 a coup denies the historical character of U.S. governmental institutions and once again threatens to distort if not entirely disarm the understanding of racial injustice in America that needs to inform racial transformation to achieve a just America.
The most patriotic thing an American can do is reject Donald Trump’s sh*t hole “vision†for America. It’s not because Donald Trump proposed it. It’s because his “vision†consistently brought war and political instability every time it was tried by ordinary countries in history who were trying to achieve the exceptionalism that America already has….
Now that Nancy Pelosi is finally appearing on the cover of Time Magazine it may be true that 2018 is “the year of the woman.†The Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives is confident that her party will win the majority of House seats in November, putting them back in power and without…
Another progressive, liberal old white man has fallen to a younger, more progressive minority woman in an urban congressional district. The Washington Post has reported that 66 year old Michael Capuano in Massachusetts lost in the Democratic primary in his bid for an 11th term. The Post said that Capuano conceded to Boston City Councilwoman…
