Politics

But there's good news too: the safeguards Trump wants to shred are on a strong legal footing and the public will have the chance to voice its objections as the Trump administration tries to roll them back.

Representative democracy based on majority rule is logical; anything else is utterly illogical and self-defeating.

“The Bernie Revolution would continue on, but with a far better communication system, coordinating the Our Revolution message on a constant basis.”

“I don’t trust him.”

Criminal insanity in Washington is bipartisan.

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

We the people need to be represented, against Donald Trump’s far-flung businesses. Trump can afford his own lawyer.

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

We’ve got an interesting next two years ahead of us.

While Donald Trump continues to be a loud-mouthed celebrity's gaffe, Jeb Bush's feigned outrage over Trumps comments of John McCain not being a "war hero" puts him in the same category— a sanctimonious fraud.