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Anti-DEI Efforts Are the Latest Attack on Racial Equity and Free Speech Feb. 19, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
First, Donald Trump and right-wing extremists attacked government trainings on racism and sexism. Th... Read More
Trump's Recent Rhetoric Reminds Us Who He Is -- and Why He's Unfit for Office. Oct. 13, 2023
It's a disturbing oddity of our current political era that a leading presidential candidate can sugg... Read More
As Covid Cases Rise Again, Schmitt's Viral Demagoguery Is Back as Well Sep. 19, 2023
Memo to Eric Schmitt: You have already won your Senate seat. You can stop with the COVID demagoguery... Read More
Alabama, Wisconsin Provide Latest Examples of GOP's Anti-Democracy Obstinance Sep. 14, 2023
The determination of too many elected Republicans around the country to hold power by any underhande... Read More
Reckless Rhetoric Shows That Some Politicians Learned Nothing From Jan. 6. Sep. 13, 2023
Some people apparently learned nothing from Jan. 6, 2021, when the reckless rhetoric of a sitting pr... Read More
Hawley, Schmitt Say Missouri Should Be Able To Vote on Abortion. Tell That to Their Party. Aug. 23, 2023
Both of Missouri's Republican U.S. senators last week endorsed the premise that the state's voters s... Read More
St. Charles Controversy Shows What a Slippery Slope Now Threatens Libraries Jun. 28, 2023
The culture wars came to St. Charles with a vengeance this week. Tuesday's raucous meeting of the St... Read More
Hawley, Schmitt Are Playing With Fire in Reckless Comments About Trump Indictment Jun. 13, 2023
Trained attorneys Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt either need some law school refresher courses, or the... Read More
Stop the Far Right From Sabotaging Republicans Jun. 13, 2023
Colorado Republican Reps. Ken Buck and Lauren Boebert each opposed the debt-limit compromise. Since ... Read More
Hot Mic Moment for Kansas GOP Official Reveals the Depth of Party's Hostility May. 25, 2023
For anyone who wonders why legislators in red states like Missouri keep passing laws that seem to ha... Read More
McCarthy's Messy Fraternity House May. 24, 2023
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, California, comes fr... Read More
Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Can Defeat Trumpism Sep. 23, 2022
As you know if you are one of my regular readers, I'm skeptical of hysterical claims that Donald Tru... Read More
What Orban's Apologists Reveal About Themselves Aug. 13, 2021
As someone who was weaned on stories of leftist intellectuals and journalists traipsing off to commu... Read More
The First Step in Fixing our Toxic Politics Feb. 26, 2021
If we're ever going to surmount this truly toxic period in our politics, each warring faction must r... Read More
The Republican Party Must Split Jan. 07, 2021
As Donald Trump's Republican Party descends into madness, dragged down by the president's lies, thre... Read More
The Traitor on Top Jan. 07, 2021
What do you say of a man who openly seeks to subvert the Constitution and incites his supporters to ... Read More
Trump Smashes the Right's Ability to Police Itself May. 22, 2020
Among dozens of addled tweets from the commander in chief over the past few days, one in particular ... Read More
Why Are the Police Caught Flat-Footed by Right-Wing Extremism? Because They Are Right-Wing Extremists. Nov. 09, 2018
Not for the first time, nor the last, the U.S. has recently been hit by a wave of political violence... Read More
The Far Right Is Far More Dangerous Oct. 31, 2018
Confronting acts of domestic political violence, the conditioned response of major media outlets is ... Read More
The Media's Cockeyed Political Spectrum Jan. 20, 2016
To hear the press tell it, the Republican Party has gone so far to the right that Ronald Reagan woul... Read More
