Way back in a distant time and place, my civic-minded third-grade teacher required us kids to memorize the names of all nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court. We knew instinctively why she’d assigned that homework. The venerable bench was inherently so worthy of our...
One of these days – but maybe never – Republicans might wake up and realize that their forced-birth crusade, their determination to control women’s bodies via government fiat, is backfiring badly at the ballot box. They seem incapable of learning the basic lesson that...
My first thought yesterday, watching criminal defendant Donald Trump trudge toward the courtroom, was how different he looks when he’s not on the rally circuit shoveling slop to his saps. This time he had nobody to succor him emotionally – buttressed, as he was, by a...
I get it, you’re tired of replaying the last two presidential elections. But what a great week we just had for the rule of law! Last Thursday, a grand jury of ordinary citizens indicted Trump for one of his 2016 electoral cheating schemes. A day later, a pro-Trump...
By Chris Satullo I had no idea young people were doing this, but now that I’ve been told…well, of course they are. Among high school seniors, it’s apparently a huge thing: the college acceptance video, posted on social media. With a friend or parent holding the...
