The U.S. Constitution—not any man, office, or political party—remains the supreme law of this land. When U.S. military generals take their oath, they swear not to a president, but to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” This sacred oath binds their allegiance to principle, not personality—to law, not loyalty.
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Stalemates And Partisanship Are Holding America Hostage.
The old blues singer had it right: “When a lady gets the blues, she hangs her head and cries. When a man gets the blues, he grabs the train and rides.” The relationship between poverty and family breakdown has always been undeniable.
The Trump administration has now conducted 10 known strikes on boats off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts that supposedly carry drugs destined for the US. The administration has now amassed a veritable armada in the region—several attack boats, a nuclear-capable submarine, an aircraft carrier strike group, a Marine expeditionary unit, and 10 F-35 fighter jets. In all, around 10,000 soldiers and sailors are involved. It’s a rather extraordinary show of force, out of proportion to the alleged problem.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The truth is, we all know someone who is experiencing domestic violence. By the time you finish reading this, three women will have been murdered by an intimate partner. But here is the hope: We have the knowledge, the tools, and the programs to stop it.
That has raised alarms and prompted calls for a solution to what some describe as the attention crisis among young people. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy proposed warning labels on social media platforms, blaming them for the youth mental health crisis. Lawmakers at both the state and federal levels are considering new limits on how young people use these platforms. But banning – or severely restricting – digital technologies won’t solve the problem.
My friend Henry suddenly texted me out of the blue two weeks ago. Henry is Aztec American, born in the US, raised in Little Village, a largely Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago.
Hey, hey, ho, ho . . . I don’t know. It’s been four days ago, as I write, that the second No Kings rally was held across the country – across the world. I can still hear the blaring horns; they sounded like music. Something fused and bubbled in the blare, a sense of connection and shared values, that isn’t going away. That was the uniqueness of this rally, or so I hope and feel at some deep place in my heart.
Early this year, legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate introduced resolutions that call upon the U.S. government to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race. Co-sponsored by 36 members of the House and five members of the Senate, H. Res. 317 and S. Res. 323 urge the U.S. government to pursue nuclear disarmament, renounce the first use of nuclear weapons, end sole presidential authority to launch them, cancel plans for new, enhanced nuclear weapons and delivery systems, maintain the current moratorium on nuclear testing explosions, and provide a just economic transition for impacted communities.
Racism is not innate—it is a learned behavior sustained by social, psychological, and economic rewards. Though neuroscience focuses on the trauma racism inflicts upon its victims, it rarely examines the hidden gratification it gives its perpetrators. The truth is stark: racism endures because it delivers pleasure—feelings of power, belonging, and superiority that activate the same dopamine-driven reward circuits as other addictive behaviors.