The focus should be on making sure that we are not hamstringing American consumers and American businesses by self-inflicted economic wounds in the name of global warming when China and the rest of the world don't care and don't act.
#MeToo in its latter incarnation has moved a little too far in another direction: Rather than talking about what women want, which would be a healthy place to go, it has begun to demonize male sexuality and desire as if it's inherently predatory.
I think Trump has succeeded in energizing voters in such a way that our political leadership has to actually address the question of illegal immigration.
We have embraced a set of social norms that make us much more likely to engage in mobbings and censure and rather than trying to engage with people and have conversations and engage in public criticism
Good intentions don't change the fact that, if successful, the Fight for $15's biggest casualty would be the marginalized workers its champions are supposed to care about.
At the end of the day, the victims are always the civilians who pay the price for the cynicism and cowardice of those political calculations: The death toll in Gaza at the time of this writing was 20, while an Israeli civilian has been wounded, too.
Those who decry critical race theory's impact in the classroom would do well to ask why they are so threatened by people of color being allowed to have their say, a welcome change after a long history of inequality. They might not like what they find.
Like most discussions on the national stage, the debate around qualified immunity is spit-roasted in partisanship, with some Republican politicians hesitant to make waves.
Republicans act like the new Georgia voting bill isn't racist, just because the bill doesn't explicitly say, "we want fewer people of color to vote." But that's exactly what it is designed to do, and as history shows, they probably know it.
I am a Palestinian from Gaza. Conspicuously absent from the five million Israelis lucky enough to get the vaccine were Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank, and in the Gaza Strip.
"We've come to our nation's capital to cash a check," King declared, arguing that in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers "were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
Doing the work together requires submission of white power to the direction and self-interests of Black people and other people of color equitably. Then, corporate promises will have the power to become more than lip service.
Racism is real, and we must fight it. But handing the reigns to people who have little understanding of the complex issues over which they have control will backfire immeasurably.
