I’m literally old enough to remember when Republicans proudly branded themselves as the cop-loving guardians of “law and order.” Richard Nixon won the presidency with that shtick in 1968, Donald Trump used it in 2016 (“I will restore law and order to our country”),...
Kay Ivey, the Republican governor of Alabama, had an epiphany the other day. Lamenting the spike in Covid cases in her rabidly red state, just when it seemed like the pandemic was under control, she declared: “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the...
Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican “leader” who’s still taking his cues from the disgraced insurrectionist-in-chief, did us a favor this week when he tried to put some clowns and crackpots on the Jan. 6 committee. His failed effort signaled anew that the...
Pro-life Americans, which I define as people who want to defeat the pandemic, should welcome support from all quarters – including the darkest precincts of the Fox propaganda machine. Hence it was nice last night to hear Sean Hannity utter these sentences: “Please...
As I process the horrifying news of hundreds dead in an unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, and hundreds dead in unprecedented European floods, and a Canadian wildfire burning a village to the ground, and record heat in Moscow, I am reminded of what happened to...
