What we are seeing directed at Gus Walz isn’t a mystery. It is the rotten, putrid fruit of generations of conservative toxic masculinity resulting in men who were never emotionally mature enough to show or receive love.
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Trump proved the first time around that laws meant little to him. His recitation of the Presidential Oath of Office was just air passing over his vocal chords. If we are dumb enough as a nation to give him another chance, all bets are off.
We’ve seen the cost of giving inhumanity run of the house. We’ve seen the way it becomes contagious. It’s time we welcomed humanity back.
The Republican obsession with "tradwife" or traditional wife policies is forcing women into submission and putting lives at risk.
Donald Trump once again insults our greatest military heroes, and refuses to apologize.
Democrats just destroyed the GOP at the ballot box again Tuesday night, and are licking their chops to finish the job behind Kamala Harris in November.
When Republicans talk about the American Dream, what do they mean? And how does their view of the American Dream differ from that of Democrats?
Vance filled his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" with selections from the greatest hits of “poornography”—violence, drugs, sex, obscenity and filth. But Vance himself was never actually impoverished.
Elon Musk has become as much a threat to the rule of law and Democracy as the Palm Beach Pumpkin.
Trump is losing. He is growing more and more unstable, and though he will go, it will not be gently into the night.
Trump is spewing out some outrageous falsehoods these days, even for him. Could he be in need of a software update?
It’s time to turn the page on the dusty, antiquated sexism-disguised-as-strength that Trump represents and to reject the Evangelical/Republican/MAGA toxic masculinity once-and-for-all.
Contestants in the Weird Olympics will be scored on the shortness of time they hold ideological positions, a position’s outlandishness and the aesthetics of its total illogicality. Judges give bonus scores for bald-faced lying.
Kamala Harris has a real opportunity to contrast her humor and positive energy with a very dark vision from the GOP—without letting them dictate when it’s OK for her to laugh.
And for eight years we began to sleepwalk through the world, physically here and moving through daylight but not fully present, not totally seeing—caught between the true nightmare and the imagined dream.
It’s been around 70 years since the McCarthy era. And most Americans today have no direct memory of its excesses and the damage done, both to families targeted and to Americans’ trust in our institutions of government.