“Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.” — Polybius
“The principle of democracy is corrupted to only when the spirit of equality is extinct.” — Montesquieu
Veterans Day snuck up on me a few days ago. No, I am not a vet. My father was in the Navy for 10...
The world watched in astonishment as the Conclave of Cardinals made an unprecedented decision—electing Robert Francis Prevost, the first U.S. citizen, as Pope Leo...
The thought of eternal suffering is a significant motivator for those who are strong in their religious beliefs. It is also conducive to those who push various religious doctrines on their congregants to keep them in line.
There is something about Nikki Haley that will never allow her to grasp and understand how to explain the lingering impact enslavement has had on Blacks.
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America, particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded their bitter vintage. — The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.1
These renegades were on the path of forming the perfect union for themselves.
I was born, raised, and lived in the city of Vancouver into my mid-twenties, in the American state of Washington, with only a population of about 180,000; making it the fourth largest city in Washington (after Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma), while Vancouver, British Columbia is the eighth largest city in Canada.
We vehemently bid goodbye to this nightmare of a year, the quarantines, empty shelves of toilet paper, nurses forced to wear garbage bags, and ignorant white people declaring in public places that wearing a mask and sanity is oppression. So, to review the year that never should have been, we offer a selection of graphics that have appeared on PlanetPOV during 2020, in chronological order.