Opinions & Commentary

The Second Amendment: Why Must Guns Define America?

The Second Amendment: Why Must Guns Define America?

The 27 words of the Second Amendment are among the most bedeviling words of the U.S. Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
I Wish Gun Lovers Were Tired of People Dying

I Wish Gun Lovers Were Tired of People Dying

Gun lovers, I so wish you were as tired of this as I am. I wish thousands and thousands of deaths every year could move you enough to move. I wish you could tap into an empathy to eclipse your gun lust.
How the Reagan Economy Is About the Screw Us Again

How the Reagan Economy Is About the Screw Us Again

In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the U.S. and the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts.
Uvalde, Texas: When Children Don’t Come Home From School

Uvalde, Texas: When Children Don’t Come Home From School

Some children didn’t come home in Uvalde, Texas and our politicians and many of our citizens barely lifted their heads beyond quick, empty thoughts and prayers tweets they think exonerate them from culpability and exempt them from action.
It’s Time to End Big Oil’s Profiteering at the Gas Pump

It’s Time to End Big Oil’s Profiteering at the Gas Pump

On quarterly earnings calls with their shareholders, big oil CEOs can’t stop bragging about how the crisis in the Ukraine is a great excuse to keep prices high and bring in historic profits — while consumers literally pay the price.
Rick Scott — Florida Man Gaslights Himself

Rick Scott — Florida Man Gaslights Himself

Rick Scott has published an 11-point proposal to raise taxes on the poorest of Americans and set the stage to destroy Medicare and Social Security. But he now claims it isn't so.