Opinions & Commentary

Lauri Carleton is the victim of two vicious hate crimes: of the person pulling the trigger and of those who made doing so for that person so easy.

Donald Trump isn't coming to the debate, though the debate will still be about him. It will give his opponents an opportunity to show their mettle, to show their character, who is and who is not terrified of the coming mean tweets.

Given the brilliant screenplay, acting, and production values of the movie Barbie, it would be naïve not to think it’s had an impact on American consciousness. The question is, how big is that impact?

It is important to understand the desecration and chaos Trump and his mob have wrought with their attack against America. They have normalized conspiracy. They have made the truth and lie equal in a public square.

Elevating masculinity and violence above democracy is just one part of Trump’s and the Republican war against our form of government. But make no mistake, democracy itself is in the crosshairs.

As long as we’re all fighting with each other about history or gender, billionaires and their corporations are free to continue pillaging America while ripping off working people and their families.

We are seeing an all-out assault on democracy in America, coming from multiple dictatorial regimes that have an interest—both financial and political—in seeing Trump back in office.

In Trump's latest charges of obstruction of justice he has ignored a key Nixon lesson: It's not the crime, it's the coverup. He also seems to have missed the memo about conspiracies...

No former president in American history has encouraged violence or tried to inspire stochastic terrorism. Outside of the Confederacy, no politician has worked so hard to tear America apart.

The Earth is being held hostage by the party of ignorance, “conservatives” who no longer want to conserve anything other than white privilege.

The American people have gotten to know Ron DeSantis, and they don't like him at all—for good reason. His campaign is collapsing. And it will long be remembered as a national joke.

To a large swath of the people, it doesn’t matter what Trump does or how many people are harmed by his growing legacy of crimes and moral offenses—they are riding him into the abyss.

The false concept of white superiority is still firmly epoxied to the minds of various Southern and at least one Northern politician, in particular, who called Nazis and white supremacists "very fine people."

According to DeSantis and his "educators," we had no choice. As the new standards explain, “the rise of cash crops accelerated the growth of the domestic slave trade in the United States.”

It looks like the billionaires who control the MAGA movement have learned from January 6th and won’t make the mistake of having an independent military, FBI, press, or Department of Justice again.

Reagan’s economic policies marked the beginning of the neoliberal experiment, which weakened the middle class and caused inequality to skyrocket in America. Which in turn are driving America’s culture of gun violence and mass shootings.