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U.S. Rep. Al Green of Texas speaks during a press conference at the Painters District Council No. 30 union hall on Aug. 5, 2025, in Aurora, Illinois. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, right, and a large group of Texas Democrats gathered to address the remapping of districts in Texas. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Time for Democrats to Get Serious About Their Political Future

From the Left / Clarence Page / Aug 11, 2025

Gee, what’s happened to the “silly season" of U.S. politics?

That’s what many of us in the daily journalism trade used to call the periods, usually in late summer or near holidays, when news media put an unusually intense focus on lighthearted or frivolous stories due to a shortage of more serious news.

We currently have no such shortage...Read more

Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains

From the Left / Dick Polman / Nov 16, 2023

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more

Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.

From the Left / Ruth Marcus / Oct 25, 2019

WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more