Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

Did you know that in 1954, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about Fred Trump, the president's late father, accusing the real estate developer...

If I had a vote in the Senate (and I don't), if I had the chance to shape the future of this country (and again, I don't), and also, if...

During his campaign, Donald Trump, a straight white male, promised to put an end to some imagined rein of terror created by transgender...

What we used to dismiss as BS is now MAGA policy . It 's hard to say when the hard-line, no-nonsense conservative party in America, the...

It is a sad truth that most public figures will be remembered for their worst gaffe, their worst speech, and their worst trip out of the...

Despite thousands of hours of video, thousands of hours of eye-witness testimony…. Despite admissions and formal confessions of guilt by...

This past week, ABC News settled a $15 million lawsuit brought by Donald Trump's lawyers accusing the network of defamation. The case...

Once again, last week (before Monday's shooting in Madison, Wisconsin), we solemnly commemorated the December 2012 murders of 20...

Shoot down a CEO on the street, and the hunt is on. Choke a homeless man to death in the subway and the president-elect congratulates you...

Now, I'll admit, a history of salacious, abusive, and primitive behavior usually constitutes a recommendation for the Trump circle of...

In an ideal world where justice is meted out evenly and without prejudice, Joseph Biden should not be pardoning anyone, including his...

Today begins the end of an epoch in America—it's the final month to brag that, in the long and often tenuous history of the United...

In the 1980s legislators, doctors, lawyers, and parents—many laboring with the best of intentions—sought to put an end to child abuse in...

Cruelty for cruelty's sake has found home in the MAGA party. Matt Gaetz, we hardly knew you, but we knew enough. And your excuse for...

In 2021, RFK Jr. said, " I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated.” It's...

As Trump's Polarizing Express chugs toward the holidays, it's time to peruse how another character handled a hostile takeover : But...

Since we're in a drought, I can't rain on the parade of all those innocents thrilled to see RFK tending to their personal health, but I...

There is a difference—and sometimes an unnerving chasm—between the president and the presidency. It's more than just the spelling of two...

In Flanders Fields BY  JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in...

I have a feeling that, among the many different yet connected progressive organizations to which I contributed over the past half year,...