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That 'Missing' Republican Witness Is on the Lam Jul. 14, 2023
The Republicans who claim to be "investigating" President Joe Biden's alleged corruption evidently c... Read More
The Heartland After Heartburn: Wisconsin and Washington Jul. 12, 2023
WISCONSIN — Birdsong on my grandmother's porch in morning sun. Seeing the Village revel in the... Read More
Stay Hydrated, They Say -- Unless You're a Construction Worker Jul. 12, 2023
About 150 years ago, Gen. Philip Sheridan was sweltering in the relentless heat of a Texas summer. H... Read More
Biden Plays a Progressive on TV. Will Progressives Be Fooled? Jul. 07, 2023
Winning, as your parents probably told you if they were decent people, isn't everything. It's OK to ... Read More
Karma Finds Rudy Giuliani Again Jul. 07, 2023
The way Buddhism describes the spiritual concept known as "karma" is much like what modern parents c... Read More
The Roberts Court: Something Rotten Under the Robes Jul. 05, 2023
Picture us as peasants in medieval Europe again. We have no human rights, a concept far in the futur... Read More
Grassroots Action Is Shoving States Into Action on Child Care Jul. 05, 2023
Two pieces of good advice: "Never sign nothin' by neon," and "Never negotiate with snakes." But Pres... Read More
In The Dock: A Discredited Court May Be a Harbinger of Worse to Come Jul. 04, 2023
One of the things that do not seem to have been made great again by former President Donald Trump is... Read More
The Land of the Free Jun. 30, 2023
As we head to Independence Day and a celebration of this nation's founding, the angry chorus of hate... Read More
The Secret History of 'Wokeness' Jun. 28, 2023
In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," Humpty Dumpty scornfully ... Read More
Clown Show: House Republicans Censure Adam Schiff, and It's Perfect Jun. 27, 2023
In his 2021 book "Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could," Rep. Ad... Read More
The Startling Facts Behind Biden's 'Sweetheart Deal' Jun. 23, 2023
The Republicans fretting over Hunter Biden's supposed "sweetheart deal" on federal tax and weapons c... Read More
The Motown Supremes, Chicken Supreme... But the Supreme Court? Jun. 21, 2023
The six-person majority of far-right "Supremes" who presently dominate America's judicial system see... Read More
The Supreme Court Forces a Reckoning for Women Jun. 21, 2023
WASHINGTON — We lost the war on women, ever since the days of groovy Gloria Steinem as the lea... Read More
The Best of the Worst: Republicans for President Jun. 14, 2023
As Donald Trump grimly faces the first federal criminal indictment ever handed down to a president, ... Read More
The Unreported News About Your 'Newspaper' Jun. 14, 2023
Why would your local newspaper not even mention an important local news story? Perhaps because it's ... Read More
Toast: A Crooked President Betrays His Country Jun. 13, 2023
If there's one thing worse than a crooked tyrant, it's an unpatriotic crooked tyrant, and with the u... Read More
The June Rise (And Fall) Of Joe Biden Jun. 07, 2023
WASHINGTON — The president just had a rise over congressional Republicans in the debt ceiling ... Read More
Biden, the GOP and You: Who Won the Debt-Ceiling Fight? Jun. 07, 2023
During the big Washington showdown over the government's debt ceiling, it looked possible for a brie... Read More
The Center Stirs: With A Crucial Debt Deal, Score One for The Adults Jun. 06, 2023
In his new book "The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War ... Read More
