As the old guard fades and democracy is under siege, the next generation of leaders is missing in action: who will step up and fight?
Opinions & Commentary
I won’t go so far as to call the media the enemy of the people, but I am telling you right now they are in the process of surrendering to the people who most definitely are.
This is what you voted for, America: ignorant bullies, junior despots, petty mediocrities who take pleasure in others’ suffering. They’re Mean Girls and Mean Girls don’t do public service.
In the 1930s, Americans followed with bated breath the crimes of John Dillinger and other bank robbers. Today's hatred of health insurance executives is right up there with the national hatred of bankers of that period.
Spending two-and-a-half hours immersed in the flat-out brilliance of Wicked, it’s impossible to miss the parallels of the moments playing out in Oz there and those here in America:
We are losing the communications battle, but if MSNBC would just get the hell out of its own way, we could start to reclaim the high ground.
No one ever expects an angry man to do anything but lie. He will only hammer and point and attack and denigrate and belittle with speech and action. But boy will fearful people listen...
Ultimately, many Trump voters are motivated primarily by fear, and fear is a heck of a drug to get out of your system once you're hooked on it.
Knowing that no one is at their best when they are afraid, Republican politicians and Evangelical preachers have kindled unearned hysteria in their rank-and-file beautifully.
The fire and brimstone, pulpit pounding, Bible thumping prognosticators had everything about America's approaching moral disaster correct, except for one thing: its source.
The West’s response to Ukraine could redefine the future of democracy.
Trump and the Republican Party are hellbent on the road to Fascism. Denying some of his these insane appointments will at least slow down their progress.
How do we go back to anything resembling normal, knowing how many people we know and love, work and study and live alongside have tripled down on lawlessness and bigotry?
Many younger voters decided to make a deal with the devil.
Goodbye to America defining itself as a Beacon of Hope, the Light of Freedom, or any of that other stuff they told you in 3rd grade.
A strategy to win back America and stand against Trump’s takeover has to get started now.