The School Shooting Script: Our Immunocompromised Body Politic
It’s the same old script. Mass shooting occurs. Thoughts and prayers fly. Declarations are made. Fingers point. There’s something more insidious at...
Student Debt: Hey Boomer, STFU
Various sources report that the Biden Administration is set to release its plan to deal with student indebtedness. Cancellation? Forgiveness?...
Boarding Schools from Hell: Indian Residential Schools in America
Imagine for a moment a breaking news story that more than 500 bodies of white children were found buried in unmarked graves at some of the most...
Convention of States: The Right Wing Takeover Has Only Just Begun
For decades, right wing actors have been steadily tearing apart critical protections of our democracy and stacking the deck in their favor. Civil...
Where is the Religious Left? Dissecting the American Theocracy
Since the Civil War, white Christians in this country have swung wildly between advancing a social doctrine of equality and promoting outright...
The End of Roe v. Wade: Extinguishing the Penumbra
They’ve done it. Well, they’re about to. As much as we all knew this was coming, it’s still stunning. Today’s Topical Cream presses the obvious point...
Dem Bums: 50 Shades of Blue
You can’t do the big things if you can’t do the little things. A friend of mine used to say this all the time. And it reminds me of the Democratic...
Elon Gated: Billionaires and Their Toys
The second installment of topical cream peers into the petty world of the billionaire class and the purchase of Twitter by racist enabler and...
The Military Film Complex: Destroying the Myth of Liberal Hollywood
Trendsetter or follower? Hollywood has made over 5,000 war films in the past 100 years. Today’s episode probes whether Hollywood has been complicit...
Drill Man, Drill: Biden’s Broken Promise
Welcome to Topical Cream, a new, periodic segment with an appropriately cringeworthy title for fuckery in the news.
Midterms, Primaries and Get Out the Vote: Send the Blue Dogs to the Pound
Dems are already in the fetal position crying over races they have yet to lose and blaming progressives for losing them. Fuck that. Today, we look at...
New York’s Casual White Supremacy: Losing the Plot on Hochul & Buffalo Bills
A run-of-the-mill, one-day news story about a billionaire holding a city hostage over a sports team and a new stadium buried the lede on the dark...
Immigration Nation: A Crisis of Our Own Design
As Ukrainians flee the war in their home country, some have found their way to the U.S. southern border, where they are immediately escorted into the...
The World in Numbers: 99 / 3.5 / 1.5
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the global political calculus almost overnight. While catastrophic and horrific in nature, this shift has...