The Democrats in DC promised consequential racial justice reform—where is it?
The message to Black Americans expecting more progress has largely been to wait—for a better political opportunity, for the racial wealth gap to widen, for another Black American to die at the hands of the police.
Why the Jan. 6 committee’s PR predicament is opposite the Watergate investigation
Unlike Watergate, full of twists and turns, the simplistic and crude Trump Big Lie scheme is self-evident and easy to comprehend.
Hillary Wants to Bring Back Bill. She Shouldn’t.
Why would Hillary threaten workaday Americans with another poke in the eye from her con man spouse?
7 Things Hillary Supporters Get Wrong About Sanders’ Voters
We need the spaces for discussion, online, on front porches and elsewhere, about how our people will again thrive.
Add November 9th to the mornings I’d rather forget
In the hours after Trump declared victory, some signs of hope and resistance.
Hamilton electors have a message for Donald Trump: ‘You’re fired’
“The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
Democrats irritated by voters who elected them need an attitude adjustment
While Trump’s forces are setting fire to the basic structures of American democracy, Democrats in Congress are widely perceived to be wielding squirt guns.
A Crisis of Public Morality, Not Private Morality
Corporations and wealthy individuals are allowed to undermine our democracy, which is causing America to experience a far more significant crisis in public morality. While public morality can’t be legislated, it can be encouraged.
A Twisted Tribute
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of staff, wants to honor King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia as a military hero. Claiming he's “a man of remarkable character and courage,” Dempsey might want to think again.
Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do
The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.