Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

Remember when Donald Trump was president? Remember when we dismissed everything he said as the rantings of an irredeemably aberrant...

The election of Barack Obama to the highest office in our country 13 years ago, certainly did scare the bejesus out of a lot of white...

With no apologies to Jonathan Swift, with whose work this would never be compared. The pandemic is a hoax. Oh I don’t mean a hoax as our...

In one circulated photo of Sarah Everard, the British woman whose recent murder in London has enflamed her country, she looks a lot like...

My apologies to Emerson Lake & Palmer. In 2012 when Barack Obama cleaned the Republican clocks for the second time in succession, the GOP...

Just when we were growing accustomed to our nice binary universe—you know, the one where Trump was evil and anyone who opposed him was...

It would be easy to categorize this weekend's CPAC festival as the final degradation of the Republican Party, but since they show no...

I guess the only thing more shocking than learning of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s death was learning that up until earlier this week he was...

When we reached a half-million dead from the Coronavirus on February 22nd, experts began tossing around numbers—the entire population of...

Rush Limbaugh once defended his commentaries by saying he never said anything for shock value—he only said things he believed. That was...

If you were born before 1971, or better still conscious before 1971, you remember a different February—a month with two holidays ten days...

In one Simpsons episode from long ago, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, inept and lazy to a fault, stumbles across a plane crash with wreckage...

Claiming the 2021 Republicans are the "party of Lincoln" is like claiming the New York Yankees are the "team of Babe Ruth." It's a quaint...

Were it not for the seeming irrelevance of time during this pandemic, I might say it's hard to believe that a month has passed since the...

While Donald Trump continued to promote left-wing protesters as the major threats to American democracy, the FBI and most other...

Like everyone else before Covid-19 changed things, I used to see a lot of people. If you add together all the years I’ve been teaching...

A few officials with principles are all that stood between us and a second term of Trumpian autocracy, or even a third. It's been over...

What would George W. Bush have done if, on September 12, 2001, Osama bin Laden had stepped off his private jet at JFK and implored the...

In the movie Annie Hall, the narrator Alvie Singer (Woody Allen) comments on relationships: Now the Republicans don't need the crazy...

For better or worse, the four-year reign of a racist president adds special significance to the day on which we honor the life and...