The message from the manger
It is not a political or ideological discourse, but the story of Christmas is a parable of light delivered to a world of pain and darkness.
Hunting Hillary: Dim Speaker-to-Be Reveals Select Committee’s Partisan Goal
As the Republican-controlled House revealed yet another committee to investigate Benghazi, is this their way of "hurting Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign?"
UnFounding Father
Until we understand that Trump isn’t an aberration, but the zeitgeist, and that simply removing him from the Oval Office won’t solve our problems, we aren’t anywhere at all.
What’s the point of satire anymore?
How can anyone satirize a presidency that gleefully flaunts its own awfulness every day?
The most dangerous man in America
"Anyone can ride a train, only a wise man knows when to get off."
Garland, Smith, Willis: Like watching grass trying to grow on the rock-solid ground in...
America’s full-of-holes System of Justice that Trump has beaten like a drum for quite some time now is like watching grass trying to grow on hard ground in the winter.
Stiglitz Speaks: Globalization’s Grand Failure, Apple & Bad Trade Deals
Why do so many policymakers in Europe and the United States continue to push globalization, despite the evidence?
The Age of the Demagogues
Are we in an age of demagogues? The collapse of our political and cultural institutions has turned charlatans and thugs such as presidential hopeful Donald Trump into viable candidates.
State of Disaster
With natural disaster after natural disaster, Texans continues to elect officials who deny climate change. How many natural disasters will it take for the state to realize the disaster of it's elected officials?
Should we entrust our schoolchildren to corporate profiteers?
The DeVos couple are pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.