by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2023 | • Politics, Crime
The Cause of the Crime Wave Is Hiding in Plain Sight When the speed of repercussions drops, society loses a key deterrent against unlawful behavior. This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and ProPublica. On December 31, 2020, a 40-year-old man named Leon...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2023 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Opinion | This is how fascism comes to America The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative”...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 8, 2023 | • Politics, Science Denial
The 2020 election wasn’t stolen. But Douglas Frank and his bogus equation claiming otherwise are still winning over audiences. | CNN Politics Douglas Frank, an Ohio math teacher, affixed his Texas flag print bow tie, led a booming rendition of the National...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 8, 2023 | • Politics, Technology, The Media
A good look at Mehdi Hasan’s criticism and takedown of Matt Taibbi’s poor reporting on “The Twitter Files” Mehdi Hasan interviewed Matt Taibbi and lit the ‘Twitter Files’ on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 16, 2022 | • Politics, Donald Trump
I think the only policydecision or group of policy devcisions Trump made that I am okay with are the refocusing of the military budget towards the threats from Russia and China. …As a result, the military is changing how it trains personnel, which technologies...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 10, 2022 | • Politics, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump
Here’s how Fox and Newsmax tried to spin the January 6 committee’s first prime-time hearing A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources”...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 4, 2022 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Perspective | Gun-rights activists remade the Second Amendment over past 40 years Placeholder while article actions load The Second Amendment looms large in the grim ritual that follows mass shootings like the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Tex. Conservatives...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 15, 2022 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
The National Debt and Other Red Herrings | Real Progressives Discussions of inflation are often laden with an air of superstition and moral panic. Like all such things they can only persist in the face of misunderstanding and rumor....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 26, 2022 | • Politics, World
I am trying to learn as much as I can about the Ukraine crisis,…it’s complicated for sure. Russia’s at war with Ukraine. Here’s how we got here As Russian forces begin an all-out assault on Ukraine after months of troop buildup and failed...
