Compassion is the defiant, relentless, rebellious burden that will not allow us to turn away when someone is hurting—and there are so many who are hurting right now.
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A single memo launched the Republican strategy to control media, courts, and public opinion, reshaping American democracy. Democrats have a ton of work to do to reclaim it.
As California begins rebuilding, this nation is going to have to decide whether or not we’re going to accept the death of empathy on our watch.
Trump keeps yammering about taking Greenland over for "national security purposes," spouting "facts" like Truman trying to buy it in 1867 though that was 17 years before he was born.
Living well isn't just the best revenge—it's also the greatest resistance. Take care of yourselves and those around you.
In just 14 hours on January 6, 2021, America tumbled from the mountaintop and into a fiery pit of Republican homegrown terror.
Time to give thanks for the rabble-rousers and the good troublemakers who serve as a thorn in the side of the sorrow-bringers; those who confound and exasperate and push back when human dignity is assailed.
I believe America will be less secure, less diverse, less compassionate, and less decent under his leadership. And so, I proudly declare my future resistance to his grotesque version of American “greatness,” no matter how difficult this becomes.
How the groveling Washington Post got it so terribly wrong with an editorial cartoon, and how my newspaper, Stars and Stripes, got it so perfectly right.
It is good to be the king as they say, but America has always been a bad place to try and build a kingdom.
Trump and his cronies are coming to power on our watch. Restraining them, defeating them and then preventing them from ever achieving this again is our job now.
Republicans are generally convinced—and surveys show they’re right—that when people have a good, well-rounded education they will vote for Democrats.
Trump is President Musk's First Lady, vice-president, chief-of-staff, mascot, fan-boy, dupe on bended knee.
Roosevelt determined that American traditions like Christmas would not be lost by the encroachment of war. And Churchill risked his life to visit and be present at the lighting of the first Christmas tree on the White House grounds.
It's all been fairly disheartening to see one's faith tradition swallowed up by a violent, bullying, gun-toting, whitewashed, Don't Tread on Me cultural smallness.
We should be using the Tea Party’s playbook to reclaim the Democratic Party and advance real progressive change.