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How To Stop American Ignorance
by Kate Harveston The great tragedy of any society that chooses capitalism over cooperation is that many of its citizens will grow up totally, or mostly, unconcerned with the world beyond their own heads. Untold generations fetishized competition and rivalry — now we’re reaping ...read more
Ben Carson's Affordable Housing Act Is A Direct Attack On America's Poor
by Kate Harveston Affordable housing has always been a target for the GOP, since the golden days of Ronald Reagan, and his famous “welfare queen” speeches during his 1976 presidential campaign. Something in this image — widowed or unmarried women living luxuriously off welfare ...read more
Trump Response To Parkland Families Is To Speak At The NRA’s National Jamboree
by Kate Harveston It’s been over two months since the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida. While much has happened in and around our nation since that day, substantial gun control is not on that list. And while President Trump hosted a listening ...read more
The GOP’s Paid Leave Plan Sucks Just As Much As Everything Else They’ve Done
by Kate Harveston Roughly 83 years ago, when Republicans in government had their first opportunity to speak on the public record about Social Security — what was then a brand-new social program and the most progressive endeavor of its time — they chose to liken it to ...read more
The Not-So-Shocking Thing Facebook and Big Pharma Have in Common
by Kate Harveston When they came to light, the Panama and Paradise papers revealed a globe-spanning oligarchy that has laid siege to most of our governments and the entire world’s industrial apparatus. This situation has been the case for a very long time, but at last, there was ...read more
Our ‘Leaders’ Are Trying to Bribe Planned Parenthood
by Kate Harveston How many terrorist attacks have taken place on American soil over the last 40 years? The real answer is almost certainly larger and far sadder than you think. According to the National Abortion Federation, community health centers and abortion providers have ...read more
So, Where's Trump At With The Opioid Epidemic? Long Story Short, Not Far.
One year is apparently how long it takes for the Trump Administration to begin working on issues of national crisis. Wait, has any work actually been done? We have a plan, you probably know that much, but it doesn’t appear that any real action is being taken. After announcing ...read more
An Appeal From A Different Kind Of Evangelical
Editor's note: Zack reached out to me in response to a piece I published on Jerry Falwell Jr. and what I perceived to be the commercial rot of American Evangelical Christianity. He thanked me for my words and for, as he put it, "exposing our hypocrisy". I was struck by his ...read more
Everything That's Wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton (Besides His Mustache)
by Kate Harveston You can learn a lot about a person from their mustache. President Donald Trump was hesitant about hiring John Bolton for the position of National Security Advisor because of his walrus-like facial hair. Bolton is a questionable character to fill any top role ...read more
Reminder: Puerto Rico Still Needs Help, Even if the News Isn’t Talking About it Anymore
by Kate Harveston Over five months since Maria pounded the island territory of Puerto Rico, the hardships continue for many residents. Entire towns are still missing power, blue tarps line thousands of roofs, and hundreds of thousands of frustrated Puerto Ricans have packed up ...read more
No, CEOs Don't Need to Make 271 Times What Workers Make
by Kate Harveston What, exactly, does a CEO do? The answer is a little different for every company, but it seems self-explanatory that a good CEO needs to make sure their company has all the right pieces in place to be successful. CEOs also expect to be well-paid, and you can’t ...read more
The GOP Is Going After Marijuana Laws For One Pathetic Reason
by Kate Harveston At a time when it seems the GOP can’t agree on anything, they also can’t agree on marijuana laws. With the cacophony of crises and scandals swirling around Washington, you would be correct to think that how Americans use pot should be a rather low-priority ...read more
Trump’s Classically Inauthentic State of the Union Address
by Kate Harveston There might be just one thing about Trump that progressives, neo-liberals, republicans and Nazis all agree on: the man speaks his mind. Whether that’s a feather in his cap or a notch against his character is your choice to make as a voter, but it’s fairly ...read more
Hey Trump, What Exactly Qualifies As a Sh*thole Country, Anyway?
by Kate Harveston Just when you thought… ok well let's be honest, no one is surprised that Donald Trump just called several countries "shitholes" in a private meeting with several members of Congress. It's about as surprising as the fact that our Twitter-happy president took to ...read more
President Donald Trump Is Killing Us
by Michele Zipp I believe this will mark the first time I addressed Trump as “President Donald Trump.” I’ve used all the other monikers and they all seem wrong; even 45 feels too prestigious. But we have to look at those words put together closely and let it resonate deep within. ...read more
“Woke Male Allies” Are Really Still Sleeping
by Michele Zipp At current time, it feels as if there are thousands of very pressing issues issues we have to take care of right now or the world will implode, leaving behind a mess of Bakken crude oil peppered with Trump’s hairs and golf balls floating in space. We are living ...read more
Hollywood’s #TIMESUP Needs to Apply to Trump Next
by Michele Zipp Just about everyone with a moral compass wore black to the Golden Globes on Sunday evening in a show of protest against sexual assault and harassment. It’s one of the many responses to the #MeToo movement and its follow up #TimesUp. The drivel of “who are you ...read more
Tell Me Again How There's No Pay Gap
by Kate Harveston Recently, Catt Sadler of E! Entertainment announced she would be leaving the position after 12 years. The reason? E! Entertainment paid her half of what her E! News co-host Jason Kennedy was earning. Despite negotiations, she was unable to earn higher, despite ...read more
The Republican Tax Plan Will Literally Kill People
by Kate Harveston In these days of political turmoil and intensifying partisan divide, it's difficult to keep track of the facts. Corporate-owned media outlets on both ends of the political spectrum market their material as unbiased and factual, all while distorting reality for ...read more
Here Are the Big Names Scheduled to Serve in the White House This Week
It’s a shame, but the days of serving respectably in the public eye appear to have passed us. Hey, millennials — are you feeling old yet? You’re witnessing history. With so many employees either being fired, threatening to quit or outright quitting, the White House is certainly ...read more
Living in Fear: Why I Wrote "Me Too" Along With So Many Other Women
by Nicole Perry Yesterday the words “Me too” were re-tweeted, posted, and shared all over Facebook and Twitter. News organizations responded by reporting how Alyssa Milano’s initial call to write “Me too” if you have ever been sexually harassed or assaulted had erupted into a ...read more
Uber, Get Your Sh*t Together
by Kate Harveston Has there, in recent memory, been a company which has fallen from grace as spectacularly as Uber after such a swift ride to the top? It was supposed to be the fresh face, the harnesser of technologies, that would deliver the world’s nations from the ...read more
5 Times Trump Was Investigated and Nothing Was Done
by Kate Harveston Americans are no strangers to complications in the White House. Andrew Jackson wed a married woman during his time in office, Grover Cleveland had an illegitimate child during an election year and won anyway, Richard Nixon rang in the modern era of ...read more
Sorry, Donald. Your Son is Not a "High-Quality Person”
by Kate Harveston Refrigerators, cell phones, dress shoes; these are things you might expect to hear described as “high-quality.” You can even check Consumer Reports, get an objective look at their performance and draw your own conclusions based on feedback from hundreds of ...read more