1. In January 2025, Donald Trump will be a. In federal prison. b. Preparing to be inaugurated as president. c. Fuming in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago over his second loss to Joe Biden. d. None of the above. 2. In January 2025, Joe Biden will be a. Preparing to be inaugurated as ...
Is American democracy a match for the Supreme Court? The John Roberts Supreme Court hangs menacingly over the land, with five angry men ready to undo the American people's verdict on the presidency. The 6-3 Republican majority is truly a force to be feared in 2024: the war within, wearing ...
Seventeen years ago this week, I started the day losing my job and ended the day looking my wife in the eyes to tell her she was going to die. Doctors thought they had found a very aggressive form of cancer in her lungs. She had, in their estimation, six months. Thankfully, before the end of ...
At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent trailing, both parties seem bent on nominating two men who have served as president and about whom substantial majorities of voters have negative ...
Former President Barack Obama talked the talk in poetry. President Joe Biden walks the walk in prose. What glorious flights of oratory did Obama once take! His sparkle seemed to reach for the best presidential speakers, such as President John F. Kennedy. But give me Joe any day. He's not ...
What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for? What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the ...
It's being said by conservatives and liberals: America faces a crisis of affordable housing. And the way out of it is to build more houses. Wouldn't it make more sense to first understand the extent of the problem? Real estate interests have sucked in advocates for the poor in their YIMBY (Yes ...
The holidays are messy. Families are messy. People are stressed and in perpetual pursuit of the recreated perfect memory that really was not but has become idealized. We do this to ourselves: debt, guilt, grief, depression, worry, frenzy, and then the lights go out, the trash packed away, and ...
An effective way of handing elections to right-wing Republicans is to label large blocs of voters as wrong by virtue of their gender, race, ethnicity, age. Those are physical characteristics, not walking opinions. Yet this self-destructive habit is routinely practiced by some on the left, ...
Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist analysis. One occasion for such judgments was the testimony of three presidents of eminent universities — Harvard, the ...
