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- September 17, 2020It was an unruly day for the administration
- September 16, 2020Leading media critic tells Bill Moyers why Presidents lie – and guess who’s the worst.
- September 15, 2020
COVID-19 has infected more than 88,000 students, faculty and staff at colleges and universities in all 50 states. Since late August alone, more than 61,000 cases have been reported. And the fall semester has only begun. Continue reading
- September 15, 2020
Today’s big story is the growing threat of violence on the part of Trump loyalists in the administration, including the president himself. Continue reading
- September 13, 2020
Department of Health and Human Services have been altering the weekly scientific reports issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the course of the coronavirus pandemic. They believe the reports are undermining Trump’s cheery pronouncements about the disease, and claim there is a “deep state” at the CDC determined to hurt the president. Continue reading
- September 12, 2020
Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic and face unprecedented assaults on our national government, it also feels wrong not to. Continue reading
- September 11, 2020
One of America’s leading trial lawyers has taken Donald Trump to court, to stop what he describes as a conspiracy by the president, the postmaster general, and the Postal Service itself to rig the coming election. Continue reading
- September 11, 2020Pursuing an unrelenting fossil fuel agenda, Trump has scaled back or eliminated more than 150 environment measures, expanded Arctic drilling and denied climate science.
- September 11, 2020An Adventure in Wonderland