More than two years into the COVID pandemic, there is still no end in sight for Americans. The response at the ballot box will be palpable. — A year into his first term as Chief Executive, Joe Biden’s plan to deal with COVID and the rampant and highly contagious Omicron variant has deteriorated into shrugged shoulders, a public health free-for-all in a country with no universal health care system and 30 million uninsured citizens. The absolute bare…

By imposing energy restrictions, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman gives Joe Biden a taste of his own medicine. — Almost a full year into the Biden Administration, there has been little departure from Trump-era economic sanctions around the world, including but not limited to North Korea, Cuba, and the Middle East more broadly. This advancement of the neoliberal project is of little surprise to the many Americans who remember…

For the Second Time Under Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court Has Defanged the Voting Rights Act. Will the Democrats Finally Push to Expand the Court? —

Since its inception, the death penalty has been a failure in the American legal body, and state-sanctioned murder is unethical behavior from an ostensible champion of justice in the United States. — “The useless profusion of punishments, which has never made men better, induces me to inquire, whether the punishment of death be really just or useful in a well-governed state? What right, I ask, have men to cut the throats of their fellow-creatures?”

Often lauded as the chief-actualizer of the Democratic policy agenda, Pelosi’s losing battle against the GOP for coronavirus relief is only her latest failure. It’s time for new congressional leadership. — Slated for re-election as House Speaker in 2021, Biden’s Administration will mark the third straight president in which Pelosi will be at the helm of the House of Representatives. Now 80 years of age, older than the current and incoming presidents, Pelosi has cemented a reputation in D.C that…

Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society got their wish with Amy Coney Barrett and their 6–3 supermajority. It is crucial that Biden pushes to expand SCOTUS, which is precisely the bold policy that his administration won’t pursue. — With record unemployment and historic economic volatility exacerbating pre-existing issues in housing, health care and food insufficiency, Mitch McConnell and his majority-Republican Senate spent the last weeks leading up to recess confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S Supreme Court, rather than passing a much-needed coronavirus relief package for…