Opinions & Commentary

Libs, you’re on notice: The Mommies are now in charge. “Liberty” now means what we say it means. History is what we say it is.

Dissent—like in the colonies before 1776—is no longer allowed in the GOP. Authoritarianism like that of King George III now prevails. Oligarchy has completely seized the Party.

This July 4th, as we celebrate, we must also realize the fact that our core principles as a nation are under attack and it is up to all of us to uphold them.

Student debt is a crime, weakening our intellectual infrastructure while maintaining and rigidifying racial and class caste systems inherited from the eras of slavery and indenture.

Every human being here deserves to find joy and to be truly free in their shoes and in their skin. Are we there yet?

An imaginary, but not too far-fetched Juneteenth conversation aboard Air Force One in 2020.

As President Biden said, “We can't take democracy for granted any longer. … Make no mistake. Democracy is on the ballot...”

Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to hating on their citizens and worshiping poverty, death, and disease?

Far-right elites met in Washington to pine for a past of the simpler days of white supremacy and not being bothered at all by the lack of rights for anyone else.

The Republican Party is using Russian propaganda techniques against the American public, every minute of every day.

Far-right Republicans in the House of Representatives engineered the censure of Dem. Adam Schiff as revenge for his management of two impeachments of Trump and his work on the Jan 6 Committee.

The simple reality is that as long as its legal for corporations to drop unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns, citizens and good-government groups will almost always be blown out of the water.

In our naive civics mythology, we want our presidents to be men and women of the highest integrity. We want them to embody the rule of law and respect for the Constitution. But these things aren’t true anymore.

The GOP is consolidating its power in Red states by asserting control over elections, purging tens of millions of voters off the rolls, destroying public schools, and arresting Black voters and parading them before cameras in shackles.

Republicans, if you care as deeply about this nation as you claim you do, you’ll dismount the dead horse myth of Trump’s patriotism and Hillary’s treason—and you’ll stand on your own two feet.

This is not complicated. Trump lost the election, took documents he wasn’t allowed to take and showed these documents to at LEAST two people who weren’t authorized to see them.