Opinion

Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challenging in several ways. Planetary protection rules and the difficulties of terraforming (making the planet hospitable by, for example, warming it up) and dealing with the harsh radiation were quoted as severe obstacles.

It shouldn't be necessary to explain why it's wrong, not to say potentially criminal, for a presidential candidate to work with a foreign power to undermine his opponent's campaign. Unfortunately, we live in the era of hyper-partisanship, and as a result many Republicans and their media supporters — the same people who have insisted for months that there was "no collusion" between Trump and Russia — are now presenting a different spin: If there was collusion, it would be no big deal.

Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be either immoral or questionable at best.

Donald Trump has spent his entire life buying his way into deals and out of trouble.  For 40 years, all he did was have meetings, talk on the phone, and buy stuff. He could see the Plaza Hotel from his office window, so he bought it. He wanted a casino he could fly to in his helicopter, so he went to Atlantic City and bought one. He wanted to surround himself with hot babes, so he bought the Miss Universe pageant.

Honesty: Expressing your feelings and opinions accurately.

Trump is a wrecking ball of male ego, who has rolled over women from his Manhattan playboy days to the presidency. Now in the Oval Office, his sexism is magnified by his need for the Religious Right as a base. He has weakened equal pay laws, restated the Gag Rule and lined up a Supreme Court nominee who wants to reverse Roe vs. Wade. The man is waging a war on women.

Angry Creamsicle, Comrade Cheetolino, Mango Mussolini, Agent Orange – these are just a few of the nicknames that Donald Trump has picked up along his presidential road. Trump may ethnically identify as “white”, but his skin is categorically and scathingly portrayed as orange.

The official rate of unemployment in America has plunged to a remarkably low 3.8%. The Federal Reserve forecasts that the unemployment rate will reach 3.5% by the end of the year.

When the U.S. elected its first black president, Barack Obama, in 2008, some Americans naively claimed that the country had become “post-racial.” But while Obama’s victory over Republican Sen. John McCain in 2008 and his reelection in 2012 were certainly historic, the U.S. has not overcome racism any more than it has overcome homophobia or sexism. The history of the U.S. shows that progress for women, people of color and the LGBT community is often met with an angry backlash—and in the Trump era, angry Republicans and angry white males haven’t been shy about expressing their anger.

Is it now time to imagine how far Trump and his Republican cronies in Congress might be able to push things? And how we, as Americans, might respond?

A July 20 report, analyzing news content from The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that Republican politicians get roughly 2.5 times as many mentions as Democrats.

Americans are often misinformed, occasionally downright dumb, and easily misled by juicy-sounding rumors. But while the right wing is taking full advantage of this reality, the Left worries that calling out lies is "rude."