Traci Trace

Once again, the Israeli government has mistreated the residents of the lands they occupy. And once again, the retaliation has been bloody. But only one partner in this macabre dance receives military aid from the United States. It's time for the U.S. to turn the page on ... Read more

The Trumpification of the Republican Party is complete -- a majority of Congressional Republicans and the GOP electorate are all in for the guy who lost the election by 8 million votes, and then launched a bloody insurrection in an attempt to install himself as dictator.... Read more

Reaching "herd immunity" from the coronavirus, according to the New York Times, might not be attainable this year -- or ever. The race to vaccinate a critical mass of people before new viral variants arise appears to be lost. This is true for a range of reasons, of cours... Read more

COVID cases are up, and so is vaccine hesitancy. Who tends to be vaccine-hesitant? It breaks out along all-too familiar tribal lines. Also: don't wear black in Portland -- the mayor is after you. Abe and Traci take your calls. Read more

It's a grab bag on this week's Too Much Information, as the Derek Chauvin trial draws to a close, police keep killing citizens, new COVID cases are on the rise, and a number of pale-skinned, conservative Congresspeople are feeling aggrieved. Abe and Traci take your calls. Read more

Over the past seven days in the United States, as there have been 12 mass shootings, another black man was killed by police in Minnesota, and the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial has been subjected to the notion that maybe, just maybe, he was justified in murdering George... Read more

It's become an immutable law of the universe that the harder conservatives rail against a given topic, the more likely it is that they're guilty of it themselves. Exhibit A -- Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. Also: the President's infrastructure bill, mixed news on the CO... Read more

Georgia once again sets the fascist standard by passing a law that not only makes it far more difficult for people of color to vote, it turns going to the polls into the Hunger Games. Plus -- with a post-pandemic life in sight, COVID cases are on the rise. Abe and Traci ... Read more

How do race, privilege, sexism, and gun violence overlap in the United States? Last week's shootings in Atlanta are a perfect example. Abe and Traci take your calls. Read more

Traci and Abe dig into the American Rescue Plan, the improving pandemic situation, and why this is a good time to be a progressive in the United States. And of course, your phone calls.  Read more