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The police have been in the news lately but the police are only the blunt end of the stick. The softer end, more like the tip of the pool cue that nudges participants into useful roles for the [...]

Next spending bill… Republicans’ big bet on the economy: Waiting another month or more on the next coronavirus bill https://t.co/lsqZVFPltL Republicans' big bet on the economy: [...]

I used to watch MSNBC almost every day for my daily dose of anti-Trump news, even though the station is chickenshit, not nearly progressive, and has virtually no Chicano voices on a regular [...]

The need is great… Food banks plead for help “[T]he country is experiencing some of the highest food insecurity numbers on record” [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== Henry Wallace, FDR’s vice president, argued 75 years ago that Democrats had to go big on economic and social and racial justice. That’s still true. [...]

During the past week I have seen several African Americans on television, including the twenty-first century stepin fetchit, Stephen “Screaming” A. Smith on ESPN, express their admiration for the [...]

===2020 Big Picture=== FDR on Democracy: The Greatest Speeches and Writings of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt https://t.co/4luml1hyyG “Those who write the peace must think of the whole [...]

I tried posting this linked article to Facebook, but strangely enough, I couldn’t. Facebook wouldn’t accept it. As a nineteenth-century German philosopher once said: “Freedom of [...]

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Are conditions for African Americans better today than in years past? This question has taken on particular relevance as I’ve been following the media coverage and governmental response to the [...]