Category archives: Politics

Trump turns his reverse Midas touch to the environment, opioids, and taxes — plus fake Nunes!

People everywhere are celebrating neurodiversity for Autism Acceptance Day; an LGBTQ collegiate conference is being held in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; a conference in New York, New York, is helping to improve online activism; and we’re looking ahead to a…

Legislators anonymous, Mar-a-Lago gossip, and when bad ideas get expensive.

Donald Trump’s appearance of ineptitude is brilliant

For generations of black Americans, the United States between the end of Reconstruction and the civil rights movement was a dystopian state

How America endangered and profited from black motherhood

MTV News asked one of the organizers for the March for Science about the motivations behind the march, how science is connected to social justice, and why people need to defend science right now.

The Presidential Addresses keep getting updated for the times — radio to Facebook Live — but don’t we hear from him enough already?

From politics to pop culture, the present feels more like a grim sci-fi version of reality than ever before. Welcome to Dystopia Now!, a collection of stories about our darkest timelines. There is no indication, at first, that climate change has affected the world of The Private Eye. Brian K. Vaughan’s brilliant 2015 comic series… Read more »

The trash is getting smelly