Opinion

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-venezuela400x444.jpg

Venezuelan official explains left wing losses to U.S. audience

The best way forward is to "deepen" the revolution by expanding the role of the Communal Councils and pushing for even more grassroots democracy.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-rumorsliesfear520x320.jpg

Fact-checking my inbox

I remember the words attributed to my favorite American humorist, Mark Twain: "Figures don't lie, but liars can sure figure."

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-catdrinking520x300.jpg

Animals: Thinking, feeling, and emotional individuals

"I cannot see an animals' expression - eyes, behavior, purring, etc. - and convince myself that it's anything other than a thinking, feeling, emotional individual."

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-pineridgechild360x300.jpg

South Dakota commits shocking genocide against Native Americans

Without consent or authority, South Dakota officials remove American Indian children from their families and place them in the foster care system, in violation of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.

assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedImage100100-weneedjobs520x319.jpg

Michigan Republicans cut welfare and twist Bible

Michigan's Republican dominated state Legislature passed a lifetime limit on welfare benefits expected to cast 11,000 families off the welfare rolls on Oct. 1 - including more than 29,700 children.