The 2024 election is over. The voters voted, the two ignorant parties either celebrated their win or tried to figure out why they lost. Over and done, right? Not just yet, as I would like to put my last nail in the election coffin. It got off to a terrible start, with about 60% to…
President-elect Donald Trump took the occasion of the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral to call for a cease-fire in Ukraine. The photographs of the American leader shaking hands with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the French Presidential Palace intimated that he might be ready to forgive conflicts with the wartime president and his publicly…
A Democratic National Committee official has blasted speculation that Vice President Kamala Harris will run for president again or to be the next governor of California. Lidy Li, the DNC’s Mid-Atlantic Regional chairwoman and a 2024 campaign surrogate for Harris, has been harshly critical of Democrats since they lost the presidency and Senate in the…
Struggling through the first and worst of my three bouts with COVID-19 during the pandemic’s early days of 2020, a time when our massive unknowing served massively, often irrationally, to elevate our fears, I received a handwritten letter from a friend, a highly decorated Green Beret who, in retirement, had become a scholar of English…
Editor’s note: Richard Bammer’s column runs every other Sunday in the Reporter. I realize it’s better to be positive about the future of the United States after the Nov. 5 election, when former President Donald Trump won not only the Electoral College vote but also the popular vote. There are days when those facts are…
After doddering, napping, and vacaying through his presidency, Joe Biden has found himself out of a job. It’s no big loss, given that he never did the job anyway, but his string-puller behind the Oval Office desk is still fuming. According to the Daily Mail: Tis the season for revenge! For President Joe Biden is…
When President-elect Donald Trump returns to public office next month, he plans to bring more than a half dozen of his personal attorneys along with him. They represented Trump in the four criminal and two civil cases brought against him after he left office, as well as in the attempt by Congress to impeach him…
How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism By Alex Caputo-Pearl Former United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl lays out a “block and build” strategy for labor to defeat the rising right-wing attacks on workers and democracy in the coming Donald Trump administration. United Teachers Los Angeles members marched alongside students, parents, and allies protesting the…
Look over the menagerie of LGBT movies and TV shows released in 2024 carefully enough, and you’ll find as many hidden gems as you will worsening cracks. In others words, there’s good news and bad news — but in the year’s overall impressive lineup, also a glimmer of hope. On the small screen, the seemingly…
Palestinian solidarity demonstrators protest at the University of Michigan, Oct. 13, 2023, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Many see the ‘non-profit killer’ bill as an attempt to silence the movement in support of Palestine, but its reach could go much further. | Jacob Hamilton / Ann Arbor News via AP Shortly after the election this fall,…