VOICES

ECONOMY WATCH - The growing likelihood of recession, at best sharply lower growth and maybe 1970s-style stagflation, seems likely to further accentuate the class and political divisions already rubbed raw by the pandemic and a global supply crisis.

PRIVACY RIGHTS - In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, privacy experts are increasingly concerned about how data collected from period-tracking apps, among other applications, could potentially be used to penalize anyone seeking or considering an abortion.

GUEST COMMENTARY - "Trump and his allies are a clear and present danger to American democracy."—the Honorable J. Michael Luttig

JAN 6 COMMITTEE - When was the last time a bad word wasn’t bleeped out on a national broadcast?

SCOTUS - On Friday, June 24, an extremist majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of legal precedent, taking away a previously recognized fundamental right for the first time in the court's history.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Whether one is a Dem or a GOP, the great thing about group rights is that it is always someone else’s fault. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Weep for the women whose rights have been stripped away. Grieve for the movement towards a more equitable society cut off at the knees. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Roe v. Wade was just overturned, which marks an overplayed fear among the left side of the political spectrum, ironically during a Democratic Biden administration.

SCOTUS & NRA - The National Rifle Association's decades-long campaign against even the most basic and popular firearm regulations scored another victory Thursday when the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key New York state gun control law, a ruling that could spell doom for similar statutes across the country.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Pain at the pump is national and international news and there are all sorts of solutions circulating the real world and the metaverse. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Call it, for lack of a better phrase, the “Gas Price Derangement Syndrome.”

JAN 6 COMMITTEE - The bipartisan congressional commission investigating the January 6 coup attempt has found strong evidence that Donald Trump is a criminal.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The role of stupidity in determining the course of history is often underestimated by historians.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - President Joe Biden, it might be argued, was elected for one reason and one reason only: his name was NOT Donald Trump. 

HE VIEW FROM HERE - At the conclusion of the Tuesday, June 20, 2022 January 6^th Committee’s presentation, Co-chairperson Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to testify live before the cameras. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is shameful and unconscionable that this country has allowed gun violence to become the leading cause of death among children in the United States – but that is the reality.

GUN CONTROL - Ready, aim, fire: "I believe in Jesus, guns and babies." So declares Kandiss Taylor, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, in a campaign ad.

RUSSIAN WAR - The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days.

LABOR WATCH - America is suffering from a worker shortage, but a more persistent and perhaps even urgent problem is the profound lack of skills among younger Americans.

GUEST COMMENTARY - “The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…”

HIGHER WAGES - Led by the Poor People's Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that policymakers "fight poverty, not the poor."