Let's face it, the Republican "law and order" party does not really care much for either these days. But they are overjoyed to accuse others of crimes, day in and day out.
Opinions & Commentary
The "Freedom Caucus" is what you get when you put people who hate the government in charge of the government—and it’s something worth remembering come election time.
There are few Americans alive today who have personal memory of Hitler, the details are lost to the mists of time. But Donald Trump is bringing it all back to us with a fresh, stark splash of reality.
In 1867, President James Buchanan said that the Senate was the “world’s greatest deliberative body” because of its reputation for intelligent and impassioned debate. Alas, that is no longer the case.
The American soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guard woman, and Marine are celebrated on Veteran’s Day. On this same day, Donald Trump desecrated their oath by insisting that if he is reelected he will force direct violations of that oath.
Trump's buddies at the Heritage Foundation have cooked up a dictatorship plan nearly 1000 pages long for him to use if he regains office. But the core of his strategy is pretty short: four words.
Fascism did not thrive in the 1930s because it was strong. It thrived because the democracies were weak. We must understand that in this moment of grave danger.
Donald Trump is a confidence man, a charlatan, an unrepentant liar whose deceits have cost at least a half-million Americans their lives. Why do so many American support him?
The day after President Trump was re-elected (with MAGA Mike's help), he invoked the Insurrection Act and began the mass arrests.
Under Jones’ proposal teachers could be paid an extra $10,000 a year to pack heat on school grounds. If you believe the only solution to gun violence is more guns, his idea makes a perverted kind of sense.
Everyone should know who Avner Less was. Everyone should know who Adolf Eichmann and Reinhard Heydrich were. When their crimes were discovered the world promised it would never forget, but it has.
Florida isn't convincing the best and brightest to come teach or study here and too many of the best and brightest already here are getting out.
As Russia and Hungary have shown us, once a country has lost the institutions that maintain its democracy, it’s damn hard to get them back.
"The ideas spouted by the current crop of Republican elected officials, including their loathing of undocumented immigrants, frighten and appall me."
Not one of the extremists currently holding office in our Congress qualifies to do so. Yet here they are, grinding the country to a halt.
No person who loves their country and takes its security seriously could ever even remotely consider voting for Jim Jordan, a preposterous figure whose rise portends a national catastrophe every bit as much as Trump’s did.