Blog

GOP lifts only yachts

While Newt Gingrich deserves much of the blame for themodern Republican Party — an assemblage of anti-democratic, obstructionist, belligerent contrarians andkooks — Grover Norquist ought to get his due. […] Continue Reading…

Sticking it to the poor, again

If you are poor, you must be lazy, right? Here in the United States of America, the land of milk and honey and gold-gilded streets, the only people struggling […] Continue Reading…

Leaving the Lost Cause

At long last, U.S. military installations are playing taps for the ignominious mythology of the Lost Cause, stripping the names of Confederate officers and replacing them with the names […] Continue Reading…

We choose firearms carnage

A few decades ago, firearms fanatics set the nation on a crazed course toward ubiquitous gun ownership, and that course has led us inevitably to where we are now: a society in […] Continue Reading…

War on ‘woke’ kindergartens

MOBILE, Al. —— Find any rankings for the worst public education systems in thenation, and you’ll find a cluster of Deep South states bunched near the bottom. Myhome state […] Continue Reading…