Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

When compromise is weakness, so-called "eliminationism" may soon apply to all of us.

In a week of misery and death, a single loss may still resonate

At Least It's Pretty to Think So

For the Yankees, the pitch clock is at least making the season end faster.

You can leave it all behind / And sail to Lahaina

Turncoats and Traitors in a Democracy: Nothing New.

A Plainville High School Remembrance: George Grasso

We're still waiting for heroes to fix things. They aren't coming.

While Republican naysayers rail against critical race theory, England comes clean.

The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead / my glass is almost empty*

Biden nudges his hat into the ring. To quote the Mandalorians: "This is the way."

In the bubble, the vision is clear. Seeing outside it is the hard part.

The GOP and voting: complicate it, destabilize it, ignore it.

Dr. King's "arc of the moral universe bending toward justice” is fading before our eyes.

If Trump is on your playlist, you should probably skip past this commentary.

The MAGA Conspiratorial Coloring Book–you can color outside the lines: there aren't any.

If the opposite of woke is ignorantly unaware or virtually unconscious, I think I'll stay a-woke.

Putin: working his way up in the pantheon of tyrants

Of masks, paper towels, Fox News, Kevin McCarthy, and D.C. tourism...for starters

A really, really, really good question.