Either I have firsthand evidence that the Republicans are barking up the wrong trees in their desperation to raise midterm funds, or I’m being trolled by them – or both.This started about a week ago when I received the strangest and most hilarious email from none other than JD Vance, who has been id…
Category: Opinion
The number one complaint I hear from liberals is that Democrats “aren’t doing anything” to push back against the illegitimate Trump regime. I understand why they might feel that way, but it also bugs me when people complain without offering solutions.We’ve needed a dedicated Democratic Press Secreta…
I will never forget reading New York Times book critic Dwight Garner’s 2002 review of Jared Kushner’s loathsome memoir, Breaking History, because if you cull it down and paraphrase it, it becomes a perfect description of Kushner the person.So I’ll attempt to use the magic of Garner’s wonderful words…
Many of us spend too much time depressed about the seemingly never-ending list of things that President Donald J. Trump gets away with. But we need to refamiliarize ourselves with the well-known dangers of what the military tends to call “mission creep,” applied in a slightly different context, no l…
Every reader here understands it is hard to overstate the importance of November’s midterm elections. The GOP controls every branch in our Constitutional framework, and the vast majority of Americans agree that the nation is in crisis, providing Democrats with fertile ground on which to harvest winn…
I am hearing terrible things about Raw Story. Just terrible. People are telling me — very smart people, the smartest people — that some of you are not giving this column your complete and undivided attention. That’s bad. Very, very bad. Frankly, it’s a disgrace.You think I don’t notice? You think I …
The canvas of Kansas is painted with fields of golden wheat, sometimes as far as the eyes can see.Children who have chosen paths in life that have taken them away from their rural upbringings return to help with the harvest. While the pace is hectic, there is a peacefulness that prevails as we reali…
America greets our 250th birthday not as the last, best hope of Earth, but under a noxious cloud of broken promises, betrayed ideals, hateful discourse, public corruption, and petulant, petty public leaders peddling horrendous lies without shame.A great bulk of everyday people are sinking in a quick…
Donald Trump’s deliberate vandalization of DC, along with our democracy, has reached a tipping point where even his most loyal cultists are questioning his motives. Just not enough of them…yet. Senate Republicans are starting to break ties with Trump over his full capitulation to Iran in Versailles….
The headlines out of the Supreme Court came at us in waves Thursday morning, like a barrage of punches to the gut:Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at BorderSupreme Court Allows Trump to End Deportation Protections for Haitians and SyriansSupreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii Gun Restri…