The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot
Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels.
Music and Black America’s Continuous Struggle for Freedom
Kevin Cooper explores the music that was created seemingly for the purpose of helping Black America's historic struggle find a language of its own and shares some of his all-time…
The Basic Right 140 Million Americans Are Denied Daily
Whose rights matter in pandemic America? Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure.
Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.
Will Biden Finally Bring Our Troops Home From Afghanistan?
After 7,068 Groundhog-like Days in Afghanistan, the president should know what the right move is.
Will the ICC Finally Put an End to Israel’s War Crimes?
In a game-changer, Palestinian victims of Israeli war crimes from various generations will now gain the right to seek justice.
Holding Trump and His Rioters Accountable Can — and Must — Be Done Constitutionally
Reconciliation that is an echo of the appeasement that doomed Reconstruction is unacceptable, but so is allowing social media corporations to determine what speech is allowed in the what amounts…
Fisher Stevens: Confronting Homophobic Bullying in ‘Palmer’
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the director explores how films like “Palmer" are redefining how global audiences understand gender constructs in previously unthinkable ways.
Finding Hope for Humanity’s Survival at a 100 Seconds to Midnight
We seemed determined to destroy ourselves, whether through the accelerating heating of the globe over decades, or a nuclear conflagration any time we choose. The good news is the flame…
The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots
Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back.
‘This Is for You, Dad’: Interview With an Anonymous GameStop Investor
Raised in a family devastated by bubble economics, one Reddit investor saw GameStop as a way to send a message to "cancerous rent-seekers."
The Journalistic Censorship Industry Suffers Well-Deserved Blows
The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
The Folly of Backing France’s African Adventures
President Macron is apparently hoping for a Biden-bailout for France’s collapsing seven-year campaign in the Sahel. One can see why.