Relief for Black Student Student Loans I was excited with the news that President Biden has announced Student Loan Relief for borrowers who need It Most Since 1980, the total cost of both four-year public and private college has nearly tripled, even after accounting for inflation. Federal support has not kept up: Pell Grants once […]

The NABWMT fights for people at the margins, and should do more to help women struggling after the overturning of Roe. And so, we find that Republicans have moved slowly and have struggled to speak with a unified voice on what comes next. We know what comes next, states should move aggressively to protect women. […]

Democrats need to find a balance between a coherent strategy by talking about the state of the Republican field as a whole, rather than singling out a few bad apples and spending millions of dollars to boost them. Republicans have unfit candidates and Democrats cannot remain fully neutral during Republican primaries. The GOP has reorganized […]

With President Biden’s approval rating mired in the 30s and with nearly 80 percent of voters saying the country is heading in the wrong direction, all the ingredients seem to be in place for a Republican sweep in the November midterm elections. But Democrats and Republicans begin the campaign in a surprisingly close race for […]

Roe overturned, LGBTQ rights at risk The reversal of Roe vs. Wade is likely to be the first step in a campaign to rescind legal rights and protections that the Christian right in America finds objectionable. They want to turn constitutionally protected rights into political questions at the state level. Two decades of gains in […]

In 2020, there were more than 45,000 gun deaths in the United States. But there was no major push for gun safety legislation. Last year, there were nearly 700 mass shootings in America — and again, there was no major push for gun legislation. Is the disturbing truth of “psychic numbing” and the feeling of […]

The reversal of Roe vs. Wade is likely to be the first step in a campaign to rescind legal rights and protections that the Christian right in America finds objectionable. They want to turn constitutionally protected rights into political questions at the state level. Two decades of gains in federal protections for LGBTQ Americans have […]

In Buffalo this past weekend — as in El Paso, Pittsburgh, Charleston and Christchurch, New Zealand, before it — the “great replacement” conspiracy theory appears to have inspired another mass shooting. The theory says that elites are using government policy to replace white people with nonwhite and non-Christian ones. This has prompted concerns about the […]

The Supreme Court has become politicized, and this is to say at the least, disappointing and perhaps dangerous. So,  a lecture by Justice Clarence Thomas, of all people, bemoaning the horrors of extreme income inequality. Does he really not realize that by giving partisan political speeches in partisan political environments, he is precisely what is […]

As a member of an organization that is mostly gay men, we forget the work women did in the AIDS crisis, so we should move to help the women who value reproductive rights. If you listen to my podcasts or read my blogs, you will know I report on activism that works, and what does […]