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Picture courtesy of officialproudboys.com. Created on August 24, 2017. “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” said President Trump at the first presidential debate of 2020, when moderator Chris Wallace…
A fly surprisingly appears on the top of the Vice President’s head in the midst of the 2020 Vice Presidential debate. Photo Courtesy of The New York Times. This past…
Arthur Porth was a man of conviction, and that was the problem. Porth was convinced that the great evil facing 1950s America was not Jim Crow, misogyny, or even communism;…
Pictured: The Statue of Liberty wearing a mask. Photo courtesy of: Getty Images The COVID-19 response in the United States has been nothing short of embarrassing. From the start, President…
Pictured: Azeri artillery at an unidentified location firing during combat with Armenia. Photo courtesy of the Defence Ministry of Azerbaijan (via Reuters) The region of Nagorno-Karabakh (called Artsakh by Armenians)…
Joe Biden laments how the Senate has changed since he was first elected to the chamber in 1972. Courtesy of Joe Biden for President. The first presidential debate between President…
Photo courtesy of The Social Dilemma We have all heard the well-worn complaints that large tech companies are selling our data. Large companies such as Facebook monetizing personal information is…
Business Roundtable approves carbon pricing. PHOTO: J. DAVID AKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS Photo courtesy of WSJ. I don’t often put much faith into business as the driver of society’s moral conscience. I…
Poster for 2020’s Mulan (via IndieWire) In late 2018, China began to experience rising criticism from the international community for its internment of certain Muslim minorities in the region of…
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden at the first presidential debate for the 2020 election in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo Courtesy of ABC News. Tuesday’s reality TV nightmare…