In the news today: Even as President Biden again asserts that he intends to nominate the first Black woman in history to the Supreme Court
Category: Politics
‘Camp Auschwitz Guy’ pleads guilty to Jan. 6 charges
On Wednesday, 57-year-old Robert Keith Packer, known as the long-bearded prick wearing the “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the insurrection at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.,
CBP commissioner defends Border Patrol’s cover-up units as ‘vitally important’
The head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is defending the department’s use of secretive, shadow police units that have been under mounting criticisms from both lawmakers and human
Caribbean Matters: Statue of Puerto Rico exploiter Ponce de León toppled, even as gentrifiers invade
Puerto Rico has recently made headlines for stories that may seem unconnected; they are related, however. The common factor? Puerto Rico’s status as a colony—first under Spanish rule,
Sequela: Long after a pandemic is ‘over,’ new and terrible symptoms can appear
“Sequela” is a word that few Americans recognize today. Unfortunately, it’s a word that is much more likely to become familiar over the next few
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, modern antisemitism is omnipresent
It is worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked as Jan. 27 to commemorate the Soviet military liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. It is unfortunately not
Video captures student hurling racist slurs at Black basketball player, victim’s mom demands action
If you’ve ever lived in Southern California, you’ve likely have heard the term “behind the orange curtain.” It refers to various neighborhoods within Orange County, or the OC,
‘He shot my grandson 16 times’ and then reloaded: Jason Van Dyke serves just three years of sentence
A former Chicago police officer convicted of murder after shooting a Black teen 16 times is set to be released from prison next Thursday after
Dozens of Democrats demand Biden release memo on his authority to cancel student debt
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts along with a bicameral group of dozens of Democrats are demanding that President Joe Biden release
81,800 of Loudoun County’s 82,000 students wore masks. Guess which ones the media wants to talk to
Here’s a chance to see how the right-wing outrage factory does its thing. HuffPost’s Liz Skalka traces back from a boomlet of angry tweets claiming schools in Loudoun
