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.
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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.
In their Christmas Carol, there would only be the continuing waking nightmare visited upon good people, by men and women of privilege whose souls or humanity could no longer be reached.
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?
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:
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