(ThyBlackMan.com) The World Cup is kicking off here in the United States and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) They are calling it a budget cut. But let’s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is taking food from pregnant women, babies, toddlers, and young children. WIC is not cash welfare. It is not a giveaway. It is one of the most efficient and humane nutrition programs this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life looks very different today than it did even a decade ago. The way you shop, communicate, manage money, consume entertainment, and even learn new skills has been transformed by technology. New apps appear every day, online services continue to expand, and digital tools have become part of almost ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It is almost certain that at some point in your life you have suffered confusion. Maybe someone said something to or about you that left you confused. Maybe you went to some strange place, like when I first went to London, and the effect was that of confusion. Or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When Rep. James Clyburn recently warned that America risks sliding backward toward the post-Reconstruction era, many heard the words but failed to grasp the horror behind them. They should. The soft-spoken South Carolina congressman is not given to exaggeration. When Clyburn invokes the specter of post-Reconstruction America, he is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When President Donald Trump appointed an obviously unqualified friend, a home builder executive, to be acting director of national intelligence, he inadvertently triggered attention to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The director of national intelligence is the head of the umbrella agency that gathers intelligence from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in “The Fountainhead” would scheme to seize the global economy’s commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don’t just appear in cartoons or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the more revealing political developments of recent years has been the Democratic Party’s growing concern about its declining support among male voters. After years of watching men drift toward the political right, many Democrats have begun asking a simple question: Why are men leaving? The answer may ...