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You may wonder why President Donald Trump is doing everything he can, day by day, to destroy faith in democracy in little and large ways, on the job day and night. I have an answer that will presently be revealed.

It involves a modest proposal.

Here in the capital, our hearts are hurting over his huge new White House ballroom construction (...Read more

It's no secret that voters are increasingly disgusted by today's extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers. But less known is the fact that extremist GOP lawmakers are even more disgusted by you voters!

They're so disgusted that a top legislative priority of Republican leaders in the White House, Congress and state legislatures is to rig ...Read more

In April, ICE held one mother, who was five months pregnant, with her husband and four children, including her 11-month-old baby, in a cell with no sunlight and little access to running water for nearly a month. The mother lost consciousness twice from the heat before anyone took her seriously.

"My children were confused and scared about why ...Read more

"Don't it always seem to go," Joni Mitchell wrote decades ago, "that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?" Last week's Senate passage of legislation authorizing new sanctions against Vladimir Putin's Russia was much-ballyhooed, but much ado about little: The most meaningful sanctions, tariffs against countries purchasing Russian ...Read more

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan keeps calling himself a capitalist. And the Democratic Socialists of America keep backing him to the eyeballs.

Why? Because the DSA understands that El-Sayed has to say that to win over even Democrats in a moderate state like Michigan. They firmly expect that once elected, he would do as ...Read more

Anthony Fauci is an American hero. He spent his entire life in public service. He took on impossible challenges -- and impossible people. He saved millions of lives around the world.

And what does he get for it? A comfortable, well-earned retirement to spend as he pleases with family, friends and colleagues?

No, he is consigned to lawyers' ...Read more

The victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for one of Michigan's seats in the United States Senate was a dramatic upset over a coalition of establishment corporatists, the right-wing media infrastructure and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the vicious Israel lobby that influences American elections without ...Read more

While visiting my mom, my son asked, "Why do I have to make my bed at Grandma's house?"

I smoothed the quilt over the mattress and answered without thinking, "Because Grandma likes it neat and she deserves a nice space."

My response surprised me. What did being tidy have to do with worth?

I somehow managed to frame household chores as a ...Read more

They took them from us, the employee handbook, it and a bunch of stupid laws about harassment and hostile workplaces.

They took the words, all the good words, all the words that let you know who the hell was in charge, which was white people, and in charge of white people were white men.

The women got to 'em, or the Blacks, or a buncha guys ...Read more

Brides should know that they already have a man. They don't have to use their wedding to attract a date for Saturday night. They've supposedly secured one for the foreseeable future.

Thus, it's hard to figure how the fashion trend of "naked dressing," lamentable even at nightclubs, has invaded the precincts of ancient social custom. ...Read more

There are plenty of explanations for what happened in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, where Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive, was declared the victor over Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, by a razor-thin margin of 1%.

For starters, he was the outsider, a former public health official talking about the fundamental economic ...Read more

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA -- On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn't take any of us kids with her and didn't say where she was going. But she was gone for a couple hours.

The day that Richard Nixon finally faced mounting public pressure against him for his ...Read more

Not that it matters, but sometimes I wonder if the billionaire potentates of artificial intelligence ever wonder why they've become so despised.

I doubt it, since introspection doesn't seem to be in the DNA of hubristic AI demigods like Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg. Nor are they programming such qualities into their "superintelligent bots."

So...Read more

Anyone looking for an actual liar about COVID-19 shouldn't be eyeing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who spent 50 years protecting the public health and earning every accolade he got. If Republicans wanted to highlight bona fide lying about COVID, the guy they'd haul in for questioning would be the president, because unlike ...Read more

How could Donald Trump with bottom-scraping approval ratings decide who would represent the Republican Party in the upcoming Texas senatorial race? The primary system offers an explanation. A simple open primary system would have let the broader public choose -- and, ironically, save Republicans from a very possible loss in November.

Open ...Read more