As I watched President Biden’s powerful and heartfelt Inauguration Address, I couldn’t help but painfully remember Trump’s “American Carnage” speech given at that same podium four years ago. Like many Americans still…
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An Update from SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang Last week’s events at the Capitol were horrific. Never before have we seen the Confederate flag flying in our nation’s Capitol,…
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By Mark S. Money, Gadsden Alabama What happened on 01/06/21 was totally predictable. It was obvious to any conscious, aware individual in 2016 that Donald Trump had authoritarian impulses, was…
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Condemns Insurrection, Demands Protection and Expansion of Voting Rights By Alabama Arise Executive Director Robyn Hyden “The assault on the U.S. Capitol this week was a violent and racist attack…
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Opinion by Benjamin L. Ginsberg The country was lucky that President Trump and his reelection campaign were so inept. He ultimately lost by a wide margin, and his challenges to the…
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By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday extended the suspension of federal student loan payments through the end of January, giving Congress and the incoming Biden administration time to put…
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As an 84-year old man, it is hard to comprehend how America has changed so much in a few decades. Especially, of how they now perceive, the precious rights and liberties…
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Senate Republicans are showing us why they should lose their majority Opinion by Karen Tumulty, Columnist Washington Post In wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, terribly unfair things…
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By DAVID LAUTER, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, Los Angeles Times President Trump‘s recorded interviews with Bob Woodward, in which he admitted to deliberately downplaying the danger of the coronavirus, blasted through the presidential…
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There is no doubt that some Americans have gone crazy. They do not seem to know those city streets were built for motor vehicle traffic, and that sidewalks were built for…
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