Opinions & Commentary

Time to Knock Off the Hopelessness

Time to Knock Off the Hopelessness

Are you grieving? Are you angry? Are you brokenhearted? Are you pissed off? Are you at the end of your rope? Good. This is cause for celebration. These are signs that your heart is still functioning.
The Exploitation of America’s Democracy

The Exploitation of America’s Democracy

Why are so many people now embracing demagogues? Barbara Walter, political scientist and author of “How Civil Wars Start,” tells us how the vital signs of healthy democracy are in decline around the world.
“Rock the Vote” Must Now Become “Trust the Vote”

“Rock the Vote” Must Now Become “Trust the Vote”

In 1990, a quirky campaign run by the then-upstart music channel MTV encouraged its viewers to Rock the Vote. Now, three decades later, we need a similarly audacious bid to have Americans trust the validity of the vote.
How the Religious Right Made Cruelty Sacred

How the Religious Right Made Cruelty Sacred

Supposed followers of the same Jesus whose family fled to Egypt to avoid genocide, are actually celebrating malicious political stunts and branding our condemnation of them as partisan politics.
Why the Far Right Hates History Lessons

Why the Far Right Hates History Lessons

Their fear and loathing of history lessons in schools has far-right Nazis either running for local offices on school boards or backing those they see as malleable enough to influence on those boards or other local positions.
November 8th — The One Day to Save America

November 8th — The One Day to Save America

You aren’t being ask to bleed or to kill or to die in order to honor your forebears and to steward the nation entrusted to you—you’re just being asked to give a damn and to vote on November 8th.