Last Tuesday, after enduring all of the fallacious bluster I could from the GOP debate in Colorado, I switched over to The World Series, hoping that a little fall baseball could serve as a salve for the aneurysm I could… Read More ›
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I Want To Provide Independent Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries, But I Need Your Help
Since I started Virally Suppressed over three and a half years, I have done my utmost to provide my readers with investigative journalism and sociopolitical commentary that is engaging, enlightening and empathic. I have probably failed in this endeavor about… Read More ›
Say It Ain’t So Joe: The Unfortunate Prospect of a Biden Presidential Campaign
Up until today, the Republican and Democratic presidential primary fields were a study in contrasts. On the right, you had a raucous melange of hyper-conservative ideologues, religious extremists and political would-be-kings vociferously bickering on national TV, all of whom seemed… Read More ›
Bomb First, Ask Questions Later: Looking at America’s Use of Military Force in the Drone Age
Ike warned us. He spelled it out for us in no uncertain terms at the close of his presidency and we should have listened. When the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe, General of the Army and Commander in Chief… Read More ›
The Ballad of Lincoln Chafee — Dispatches From The Democratic Debates
Tuesday night’s showdown of prospective Democratic nominees for president provided all of the clarity and revelation that one could reasonably expect from an inaugural debate taking place 4 months prior to the opening of primary season. As she was expected… Read More ›
Colorblind to Justice: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in The Progressive Era
A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled, “The… Read More ›
We’re Going To Miss You: Paying Homage To Jon Stewart on GOP Debate Night
Today, as we bid farewell to Jon Stewart in his tenure as one of the most unlikely voices of a generation on The Daily Show, I must hark back to the original king of American satire and mockery, Mark Twain… Read More ›
A Most Wretched Man: The Vile Legacy of Andrew Johnson
For much of the 19th century, it was fashionable for academics and historians in the West to subscribe to the “Great Man Theory” of history. The Great Man Theory, as it name implies, contends that the course of human events… Read More ›
Black Votes Matter: Why Bernie Sanders Needs To Leave His Economic Comfort Zone & Tackle Racial Injustice
Head over to Bernie Sanders’s campaign website and you will find the unbridled economic populism of the first self-proclaimed socialist this side of Eugene V. Debs to have a legitimate shot at making waves in a presidential election. In his, “On… Read More ›
DebateKings: Your Only Home For (Fake) Fantasy GOP Debate Contests
Sick of the 2016 presidential race already? Well, tough shit, because we’ve still got another 420 days to go until election day and that’s pretty much all you’ll be hearing about from now until then. Want to have a meaningful… Read More ›
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