With the polls confirming that the GOP is almost certainly about to lose the House come November 6th, president Trump is trying every strategy he can think of to motivate his base.  Predictably, this largely consists of vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric he knows his racist ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

So we have to actually do this. Elizabeth Warren, or "Pocahontas" as president Trump derisively likes to call her, is in fact part Native American as her DNA test results show.  Senator Warren made the results of her DNA test public today, which shows “strong evidence’’ that she ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

There is a country that ranks 31st globally in life expectancy even though its healthcare costs per capita are by far the highest. This country has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the free world. It loses over a thousand people every week to misuse of ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Jan 26, 2018

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

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

For reasons best known to himself, Donald Trump decided to post an easily disprovable lie on Twitter today that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled: Of course it hasn't doubled -- to the contrary, Trump's approval rating among black Americans has more than ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Calling Trump a racist for disparaging African and black nations as "shitholes" is, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, "outrageous". Why, you might ask? Because Donald Trump had a television show for 10 years, so by definition cannot be a racist.   “I think that is an ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 16, 2018

President Trump is a racist. At this point, there's really no reasonable way to deny it. Ever since Trump, along with his Dad, evicted people of color from their homes then decided it was his duty to persecute the "Central Park Five" for crimes they didn't commit, we've witnessed ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

United States exists as a country due to the genocide of Native Americans and the theft of their land. It was built off of the labor of enslaved Africans who were never compensated for their appalling treatment or their centuries of free work.   America is also a nation of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 11, 2018

By now, you've probably heard Eminem's ruthless takedown of Donald Trump in a remarkably powerful hip hop video released before BET's Hip Hop awards. In it, the Detroit based rapper slammed Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, blasted him for his ties to racists, and drew a ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Oct 13, 2017

Along with many other black writers across the country, I have made former presidential candidate and now HUD Secretary Ben Carson the object of my disappointment in aligning himself with Donald Trump.  Carson has been rightfully skewered for his ignorant political views and ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

If you thought Donald Trump couldn't sink any lower after his atrocious response to the racist terrorism in Charlottesville earlier this month, think again. In a despicable move designed to appeal to his racist base, Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Apparently it was our lack of hospitality that caused all the death and injury in Charlottesville. As progressives, we need to take this to heart and promise to do better in the future. After all, the Nazis and a motley crew of their KKK, alt-right, and skinhead friends are ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Nov 9, 2018

Just when it seemed like Donald Trump was capable of passing the lowest bar ever, when he finally said "racism is evil" yesterday after three days of refusing to acknowledge that the events in Charlottesville were caused by white nationalist neo-Nazis, he did a press conference ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

In a truly disturbing report released this week in the Guardian, a worrying number of Trump supporters revealed a hatred for Hillary Clinton that runs so deep they were unconcerned as to whether Donald Trump cheated to win the election in 2016. The report, based on a Trump ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Before he began his shameful race for the presidency, even before he started his racist campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama by calling into question his American citizenship, there was one low-light from Donald Trump's past that clued everyone in to the kind of reprehensible ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

After watching Donald Trump yelling at the world Wednesday night, I'm more discouraged than ever about the current state of the American political process. How could this have possibly gone so far? Are we really this vulnerable to the whimsy of necrotic populism? Sadly, we are ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

As near as we can tell, Donald Trump's campaign platform is basically three things: 1) extreme vetting of Muslim immigrants, 2) building a wall and deporting 12 million Mexicans, and 3) solving crime on day one. None of this is at all achievable, but up until this week, he's ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

If Donald Trump is legitimately attempting to reach out to African-American voters, he's doing a horrible job of it, which comes as no surprise. At rallies in North Carolina and Michigan late last week, Trump outlined a series of talking points, recited from dreaded teleprompters ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018