by About Face | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Military, Organizing, Protest
An Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard Troops Attention Members of the National Guard, We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what’s at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in...
by Thom Hartmann | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Supreme Court
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today. Removing those dual...
by Tom Conway | May 31, 2020 | Blog, Featured
Rich Carmona spent decades upgrading his 1970s ranch home in Midland, Mich. He lovingly installed new flooring and doors and remodeled the bathrooms. After finishing the kitchen 18 months ago, he finally had the house the way he liked it. Then the 96-year-old...
by Alan Barber, Hebah Kassem, Sanjeev K. Sriram MD | May 27, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Health, Inequality
Photo credit: Sara Eshleman, DOD / cc From alarming death rates for Black, Latinx and Indigenous people to the fact that women of color make up an astonishing percentage of the essential workers putting their health on the line, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting...
by Bernie Horn | May 26, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Health, Politics
Photo credit: Dylan Harukami, USAF / cc COVID-19 has killed 100,000 Americans so far and, due to his numerous lies and mistakes, Donald Trump is substantially to blame. Let us focus on one particular catastrophic mistake, discouraging Americans from using masks in...
by Thom Hartmann | May 25, 2020 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, Featured
Photo credit: DOJ, Wikimedia Commons / cc Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, had a phone call with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016...
