The DOJ report on the Robb Elementary School massacre called the cowering of 370 craven, heavily armed officers a "failure of leadership." Their inaction was crime, but it’s not illegal in Texas to be a coward.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
No matter what nonsense Trump says, his fans cheer—because they are a cult. This election is about how many there are of them, and how many there are of us, and who will turn out and vote.
There were just over 110,000 Republicans who turned out for the Iowa caucus. Nearly half of them weren’t Trump's. What does that tell you about his “ties” to his voters?
We are blessed as a nation that Martin Luther King Jr. walked among us for 39 years, exhorting his fellow citizens to live up to the nation’s founding principle that all men are created equal.
The facts of history are sometimes brutal and hard to confront. That our former president should use the same terms as one of the true monsters of that history is something that should make us all cringe.
Trump is threatening to create a perfect world for himself, in which he will be allowed to do whatever he wants to do, no matter if it is legal or illegal, without suffering consequences.
The Gas-Can Caucus running the House of Representatives treats funding the government like an exciting road trip, with a few gallons in the tank and some gas cans in the trunk.
Donald Trump is the only president in our history to be elected not because he had paid his political dues or had an expert knowledge of the levers of political power gained over decades, but because he is famous.
Both Jan 6th and 9/11 were seen live by millions on TV. Coverage of both events was substantial. Yet Republicans are running denial campaigns about Jan 6th and are trying to rewrite that story.
A decision from the Fifth Circuit, formerly an icon of civil rights, gives more emergency room rights to wounded gang members, mass shooters and dying drug addicts than women in need of an abortion.
Oral arguments are a week away in Trump's appeal claiming he has total immunity, despite the fact that no case law supports his assertions.
Nikki Haley, the Former Governor of South Carolina, now running for President, completely muffed a question about the cause of the Civil War, and failed trying to walk it back. But there is more to this than her poor sense of history.
A very original adaptation of "The Night Before Christmas."
Here we are, waiting for Trump's fawning pets on the Supreme Court to bail out their master by finding that there is no law in the land that applies to him.
Clarence Thomas began the long, slow slide of the Supreme Court into its current disgraceful state, voting again and again in favor of the conservative campaign to undo American civil rights.
The 14th Amendment still stands in all its thunderous glory with the word “insurrection” appearing again and again in its text.