America in Decline: New poll shows growing Anti-Intellectualism and the devaluing of Education

By Robert A. Vella In director Mike Judge’s prescient and highly underappreciated 2006 satirical film Idiocracy, society five centuries from Continue reading →

Dems face identity crisis

Democrats are grappling with how to keep their progressive base happy while winning over white working-class voters who left the Continue reading →

Delaware governor signs first state abortion rights law under Trump

Delaware’s governor has signed into law a bill that ensures abortion remains legal in the state, in the first such Continue reading →

Dems want Hillary Clinton to leave spotlight

“If she is trying to come across as the leader of the angry movement of what happened in 2016, then Continue reading →

For Democrats, even a rampaging megalomaniac like Trump won’t bring them together

By Robert A. Vella The news just keeps getting worse for the Democratic Party.  Not only have they suffered the Continue reading →

Sanders defends Trump voters: I don’t think they’re racists, sexists or homophobes

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Friday defended voters of President Trump, saying that the election was Democrats’ to lose Continue reading →

Disabled or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up

Between 1996 and 2015, the number of working-age adults receiving disability climbed from 7.7 million to 13 million. The federal government this Continue reading →

Glenn Greenwald discusses the “Deep State,” its feud with Trump, and Democrats’ hypocrisy on leaks

By Robert A. Vella In this disturbingly messed-up world we’re living in today, it is easy and natural for us Continue reading →