May 2020

Racism and the National Soul

For Cuba and Venezuela, US Silence May Not Be Golden

Do the Most Severe Lockdowns Coincide to the Highest COVID-19 Death Rates?

My Israeli Nemesis is Moving to America

Vice President Kamala Harris?

How Economic Misery Helped Fuel the Syrian War

Yellowstone to Uintas Connection

Veterans Exposed in Cold War Bioweapons Testing Still Awaiting Answers — and Help

Not Liberty, Happiness

Oil Prices Plunge, But California Oil Permits Rise 7.8%

Visions of a Future Beyond Capitalism: Revolutionary Films to Watch Under Quarantine

Dark Winter? Honey Badger Trump Don’t Care

Basket Case

Celebrated to Death: the Betrayal of the American Soldier

Falling Consumer Prices, Except for Food

The U.S. Military is Hell-Bent on Trying to Overpower China

The Timeliness of Albert Camus’ “The Plague”

To Divide and Conquer: Science, News, and Hate in the Age of Instant Media

Trump’s Advisers Have a Brazen Plot to Gut Social Security

Our Continuing Terror: the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

Brazilian Indigenous Peoples Confront Double Threat of COVID-19 and Bolsonaro’s Policies

COVID-19: Why Iran Is Doing Better Than You Think

The Venezuela Kerfuffle and the Secret Team

The Future is Up for Grabs

Greenlighting War: Iran and Yemen

Michael McClure: Beat Poet and Playwright Helped Thaw Cold War American Culture

Political Fantasies Versus Economic and Health Realities

What on Earth is the U.S. Doing by Bombing Somalia?

In (and Out) Like Flynn

Coronavirus Pandemic Prompts Global Mental Health Crisis

In Lockdown, India is No Country for Old Men

We Need a Centralized Medical System Too

“Making It Up As They Go Along:” Boris Johnson and COVID-19

Discouragement Gap in College Dreams Brings Civil Rights Value to Real COVID-19 Relief

Nothing Left

Who’s in a Catch-22?

Who Are You Kidding? The Democratic Party and the Joe Biden Fiasco

Virologist Luis Villarreal: “Leery” of COVID-19 Models, Vaccine Possible Year’s End

On Asparagus and Bombers

Patriotic Vaccines: The Divided Coronavirus Cause

A For-Profit Postal Service Would Slam Small Businesses

Republicans Can’t Seem to Make Up Their Minds About Mail and Voting

Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession

Class Struggles and Social Distancing

The War Against the Wolves of Alaska

Why America Cannot Afford to Let the U.S. Postal Service Go Bankrupt

The Wet-Bulb Peril Has Arrived… Way Too Early

Terminal Conditions

Iraq Will be Hit Harder by Falling Oil Prices Than COVID-19 or ISIS

Biden Ridin’ the Pandemic to the White House, Trump to Take Hit for Neoliberalism’s Failures