What the Bosa/Kaepernick Double Standard Tells Us About the 2024 Elections

What the Bosa/Kaepernick Double Standard Tells Us About the 2024 Elections

November 12, 2024 Nick Bosa and Colin Kaepernick each introduced their politics onto the sphere, but they skilled very totally different repercussions. Advert Coverage San Francisco 49ers quarterback Nick Bosa interrupts a teammate’s interview by pointing to his MAGA hat on October 27, 2024. (NFL / NBC) On Sunday October 27, 9 days earlier than … Read more

Elections 2024: America at the End of Its Tether

Elections 2024: America at the End of Its Tether

Yves here. This post provides a much-needed departure from a lot of election-eve commentary. It focuses on root causes of American discontent and strife, which is inequality and rising economic stress and how neither major party has much interest in delivering concrete material benefits to ordinary citizens. Of course, another way to summarize why citizens … Read more

Election officials are hard at work to deliver fair and secure elections, despite a constant flow of attacks

Election officials are hard at work to deliver fair and secure elections, despite a constant flow of attacks

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The 2024 election is rife with controversy, from the politics of the campaigns to the politics surrounding the administration of elections. Accusations of wrongdoing and ineptitude continue to plague election officials, despite their explanations of legal compliance and process. This is not new. During the 2016 election season, there was a … Read more

Trump and Harris battle over election’s greatest problem

Good photos After practically a 12 months off the stage, Donald Trump returned to X this week and requested his 89 million followers: “Are you higher off now than once I was president?” Throughout Ronald Reagan's profitable 1980 presidential marketing campaign, “Are you higher off in the present day than you had been 4 years … Read more

Trump and His MAGA Movement Are Actively ‘Hijacking’ Georgia’s Elections

After completing the MAGA takeover of the Georgia State Election Board, Donald Trump’s allies quickly cemented his 2020 election lies into policy, and moved to allow conspiratorial-minded county election officials to refuse to certify election results if they see fit. Even before the election board granted broad powers to county election officials to deny election … Read more