It’s not a ‘democracy’ when minority-elected presidents nominate Supreme Court justices who overturn constitutional protections and give state governments the power to do more of the same.
Opinions & Commentary
Now that we have witnessed the demise of Roe v. Wade at the hands of a Trump-stacked Supreme Court, the story of The Handmaid's Tale begins to loom large again.
The ramifications of Supreme Court's shift to "originalism" are just becoming clear. Beyond this gun ruling, the effects will continue to be seen in decisions on abortion, religion, criminal justice, environmental regulation and many other issues.
Food experts have warned for years that monopolies make our food supply vulnerable. Now families with babies are paying the price.
With all the bad news in the world today, you wouldn't think that the best of times were anywhere near. It is time to take stock of the growing number of things that are actually going in the right direction.
We wake up in a nation where Juneteenth and MLK Day are both national holidays—yet where an entire political party is working to prevent the teaching of the ugliness that precipitated the civil rights movement even existed.
Had Pence obeyed Trump, said retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, "America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis."
Proving seditious conspiracy charges against these right wing groups will be challenging. But their racist intent could not be more obvious.
The big question is why would anyone listen to Ginni Thomas or give her the time of day. Oh, yeah. She's married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
It is as plain as the shape of the White House, even after just this first hearing, that Trump committed treason. While the Department of Justice plods forward with their work, the American public is already seeing the truth.
We know how easily a government can be toppled into fascism and how close we came in 2020: if just five Republicans had not refused to go along with Trump we'd be in this fascist dystopia today.
My wife and I are Covid-19 breakthrough cases. The fact that we got the first two Moderna shots in 2020 and the booster some months back, is probably what kept us at home and not in the hospital.
Columbine High School. Platte Canyon High School. Virginia Tech. Deer Creek Middle School. Aurora movie theater. Arapahoe High School. Santa Fe High School. ProPublica reporter Jenny Deam reflects on covering them all.
I grew up in a church community that pitted people against each other and called it “Christianity.” As a pastor now myself, I know there’s another way.
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.”
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.
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