After last week’s controversial campaign rally in North Carolina, it’s official: President Donald Trump has gone full fascist in his bid to be re-elected to a second term. The historically unpopular president is pinning his hopes on the basest instincts… Continue Reading
Mike Rubin lives on borrowed time. The 40-year-old northeast Pennsylvanian native was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2010. In 2011, Rubin endured four months of brutal chemotherapy, only to have the tumors in his neck and shoulders return three months… Continue Reading
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —Declaration of Independence, excerpt, 1776.… Continue Reading
Twenty years ago this week, brothers Benjamin and Tyler Williams, armed with nothing more than sincerely held religious beliefs and a small caliber pistol, invaded the Happy Valley home of Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder and killed the gay couple… Continue Reading
I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost come to believe it myself. “America was founded as a Christian nation,” the saying goes. Or something more like, “America was founded on Judeo-Christian values.” It’s repeated constantly by Rush Limbaugh, Sean… Continue Reading
As a journalist, I have a saying that I keep close in mind whenever I’m writing for publication. “The text must be unassailable!” I mutter to myself as I pace about the room. It’s applied to both style and substance… Continue Reading
It’s hard to feel festive on a national holiday when your country’s going to pieces. On Memorial Day, we’re supposed to honor fallen members of the U.S. Armed Services. They died so we could be free, we tell ourselves, even… Continue Reading
Every election needs a demon, and in the showdown between Republican assemblymen Brian Dahle and Kevin Kiley for the 1st District State Senate seat vacated by Ted Gaines, the evil spirit is a familiar one: Pacific Gas & Electric, the… Continue Reading
Great minds think alike. When the New York Times last week broke the news that President Donald Trump lost more than a $1 billion between 1985 and 1994—a span during which he touted his business acumen in the ghost-written Art… Continue Reading
Contrary to many of its local detractors, Bethel, the controversial megachurch in our midst, is not a cult. True, it has all the markings of a cult, but for the purposes of this story, Bethel is best thought of as an octopus with seven arms—a septopus if you will. Continue Reading
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