Politics

The issues facing the US in a presidential election year are simply too important for the candidates to ignore. And yet, while this suggests that they need to display policy mastery and even, now and again, genuine statesmanship, they are instead merely assuring voters that they will “keep us safe.”

“For the sake of our nation’s common good—mostly likely, for the sake of saving human civilization from encroaching climate destruction—I think we must expose the hypothesis that Democrats are beyond reform to testing by purely rational experiment.”

If Democrats stand for one thing, it must be overcoming this unprecedented economic imbalance.

“The Forest Service failed to provide a logically coherent explanation for its decision to eliminate the Pilot Knob Alternative.”

Big oil believes “We now are going into a transition where we are going to have a new President of the United States who gets it."

Without these institutions, The GEO Group and CoreCivic would be in trouble—which is what advocates for divestment want.

Ted Cruz may be able to build up his poll numbers by promising to carpet bomb foreigners in the Middle East of whom we are fearful, but at least we know that biology doesn’t have to dictate our response. Our brains don’t have to stay in the Stone Age.

“How can so many millions of Americans not see that this guy is like a time bomb ready to explode at any time, whenever someone dares to confront or criticize him?”

Sales tax hikes and a handful of minor tax increases for businesses will close roughly three quarters of the $3 billion budget hole ex-Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) left behind.

This Thanksgiving, Biden supporters can give thanks to Indigenous Peoples. But please don’t blame them if Biden turns out to be a turkey.