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Sat, September 18, 2021 | 16:39

Pentagon's UFO report is coming soon

Did we ever tell you about the unidentified flying object discovered outside Baltimore? In 1949, a farm in Glen Burnie was briefly swarming with state troopers and military investigators checking out reports of a flying saucer. And, indeed, they found what were later described as “prototypes” of aircraft in a rundown barn - experiments in manned flight pieced together by an e...

2021-06-06 14:32

Biden must press Congress to protect right to vote

By staging a dramatic walkout Sunday, Democrats in the Texas of House of Representatives prevented passage of a Republican bill that would make it harder for Texans, particularly citizens of color, to vote.

2021-06-03 17:17

Domestic violence and gun control

Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke for California and the nation when he said, “What the hell is wrong with us?”

2021-06-02 17:17

Afghan girls and women face grave danger when US troops leave

“Don't abandon us!” That's the message I'm getting from brave, educated Afghan women - as the Pentagon advances the date for the final troop withdrawal from Afghanistan to mid-July.

2021-06-01 17:03

Lame excuses from Jan. 6 Capitol rioters

Some of the defendants facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol deserve points for creativity. Among the defense arguments emerging in court documents: “I got caught up in the mob” and “Trump told me to do it.”

2021-06-01 17:02

LA needs to stop dodging question of defunding police

In the weeks and months after George Floyd's murder, activists coalesced around one terrible truth: Decades of police reforms have not stopped the targeting, abuse and unjust killing of people of color by police officers. Their answer was to call for more radical steps, starting with reducing the size, scope and budgets of law enforcement agencies. As protests spread across t...

2021-05-31 17:01

Another victim of Floyd killing: right to protest

On a night in mid-December 1773, a group of about 60 men who had disguised themselves as Native Americans boarded three merchant ships at a Boston wharf and dumped dozens of chests of imported tea into the cold dark waters - an act of civil disobedience that damaged private property in protest against government tax policies.

2021-05-30 16:49

Democracy and division: Can democratic innovations reduce polarization?

More than ever, Americans are concerned about political polarization. Public Agenda's most recent Hidden Common Ground survey found that 93 percent of Americans say it is important to reduce divisiveness in the United States.

2021-05-28 21:08

Plane hijacking, kidnapping of journalist are outrages

The state-sponsored hijacking Sunday of an Irish airplane - an outrageous crime directed by the dictator of Belarus to abduct a journalist who opposes the brutal buddy of Russia - demands more than mere expressions of outrage.

2021-05-27 17:04

Republican Party's new McCarthyism

Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Republicans seem more than happy to memory-hole the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, as GOP members of Congress find absurd reasons to oppose a bipartisan commission to examine the beginnings and unfolding of an attempt to upend a presiden...

2021-05-27 17:02

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