On this Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day and in this era of reconsidering monuments to people who built their careers on racism, it’s time to rename the Russell Senate Office Building, where 33 senators today conduct their daily business. This is not just a symbolic gesture: follow along with me for a moment. Democratic Senator Richard Russell was […]

Are Manchin and Sinema white supremacists? Or doing the work of white supremacists who finance them? Or just cynically using white supremacy to advance their political goals?

China is looking at their interdependence with us through a national security lens, and we should, too

Once citizens believe a nation is “a republic but not a democracy” it’s easier for a strongman to limit majority-rule voting so “only the right people” get to vote or have their vote counted

For me, all the proof I need that Trump, if not the biblical Antichrist, is at least a political one, is what he says and does…

In America if you kill your spouse you’ll end up in prison – but – if you kill millions of people, you can laugh at the law & buy a new yacht

Seniors not getting eyeglasses or diabetics getting price gouged on insulin are all bad, but won’t signal the death of our republic: the failure to pass meaningful voting rights certainly will

As Biden told us, we stand at an inflection point of history. The fate of democracy here and around the world is actually hanging in the balance. Hopefully our Attorney General was listening…

Is our “reality TV” media up to the task of comparing and contrasting the two political parties, and judging the most likely outcomes of the directions they’ve chosen?