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“The Biden administration is weighing whether to extend a soon-expiring federal policy that prohibits landlords from evicting their cash-strapped tenants” during the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post…

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump and his minions tend to follow the basic four-step rhetorical process already set for them by the neo-conservative (called neo-liberal in the rest of the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 13th, 2021The march had been planned for a while. Those who made up the march to the nation’s capital sometimes were fueled by hatred of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2020Covid-19, also known as the coronavirus, has been hard on all of us. But the pandemic’s economic fallout has been harder on lower-income Americans,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 28th, 2020“Millions of American adults who earn low wages rely on federal programs to meet basic needs, such as Medicaid for health care and the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 19th, 2020There is now a strong push from U.S. President Donald Trump and his political minions to quickly appoint Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2020There currently is a lot of protest over the unnecessary use of force that police officers use on U.S. citizens, with a special emphasis…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 29th, 2020The Coronavirus – also known as COVID-19 – has killed more people in the United States than in any other nation in the world…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2020“In recent years, homes in northeastern Connecticut and central Massachusetts built in 1983–2015 have begun to exhibit . . . damage” thanks to “concrete…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 25th, 2020The excessive – and occasionally deadly – use of force by America’s law enforcement has been a major social issue this summer. The recent…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the weakness and stupidity of the U.S. socio-economic system.The astronomical cost of the U.S. health care system has proven…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 1st, 2020Yesterday, the American Spark quoted the first half of Dr. Rick Bright’s eye-opening testimony on the Trump Administration’s handling of the coronavirus. Dr. Bright…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2020We would love to believe that we have beaten the coronavirus. But the continued increases of individuals infected with COVID-19 remind us that the…

Donald Trump is in trouble. In the midst of the Coronavirus outbreak, people are looking for real answers to actual problems. Donald Trump has no answers. He never has had…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 29th, 2020President Trump often feels the need to declare to no one in particular that he is a “very stable genius.” Such unwarranted outbursts typically…

The former Justice Department chief of staff contradicts Gonzales in congressional testimony.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was briefed regularly over two years on the dismissals of federal prosecutors, according to former…

By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 31st, 2020 “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 29th, 2020Yesterday, the American Sparkdiscussed a study on the benefits of a Medicare-for-All system that wasrecently released by The Lancet, one the world’s top medical…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 28th, 2020A study on the benefits of a U.S. national health care system was released two weeks ago by The Lancet.It has quickly become a…

If you have been searching for one clear-cut, impartial source that explains the “Ukraine Issue” and the subsequent impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, the American Spark has found it: A…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2020 The biggest politicalmatter in the U.S. at the moment is the impeachment of Donald Trump.Everyone knows that the issue revolves around the Trump…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 31st, 2019“Record low extents of Arctic sea ice over the past decade have focused scientific and policy attention on links to global climate change [which…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2019A fascinating study on the drive to create a direct popular election of the U.S. president was quietly released last month, by the Congressional…