Opinions & Commentary

Conservatives call Anderson’s film “irresponsible” because it dares to show what happens when power turns its guns on the powerless.

AI tools are not and never will be some sentient substitute for life. Life can create. Matter and energy cannot and never will create anything.

Congratulations, Trump supporters, you’ve thoroughly and completely owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability and prosperity.

If, for these things, I am my country's enemy then so be it.

Portland is a pristine city. Yes, parts of it got trashed during the protests five years ago, and yes, we have a serious homeless problem. As do most big cities these days.

MAGA Americans do love the Bible…. well, not reading it or studying it or learning its history or understanding its cultural context, or doing much of what it says...

Comments on the Trump-Epstein statues: Trump’s statue isn’t fat enough, his hands should be smaller, his tie should be longer, no way he can stand on one foot, why do both men still have their pants on?

There is nothing left for Donald Trump to show us. There is nothing left for him and his ship of fools to reveal. They have announced themselves fully and completely.

Like every dictator throughout history, Trump demands unquestioning loyalty to him first and and in our case, the Constitution last.

Conservative Christians need to stop pretending Charlie Kirk was doing God’s work here, because his actual words and the actual words of Jesus are compelling testimony that he wasn’t.

The rightwing machine wants you scared of progress, but I’m here to speak their worst nightmare out loud...

From the White House on down, the country has finally caught up with college football’s 150 years of tribalism: You are Red or Blue, you are one of us or you are the enemy.

Every authoritarian regime began not with tanks in the streets but with leaders who used words like weapons and convinced their followers that fellow citizens were traitors.

At the ground level, Charlie Kirk’s killing was the result of hate. But the view from thirty-thousand feet reveals that it was also due to the cowardice of an entire political body.

America elected its first dictator and gave him a rubber-stamp Congress—one that already enabled a Supreme Court to render him immune for any crimes he is prepared to commit.

Maybe it is time for conservatives to realize the irony of desperately seeking the kindness of empathy that they work tirelessly to withhold from others, a gentleness and decency they so often turn into a punchline.