Evangelicals, negative partisanship, and Trump
Why do evangelicals, who supposedly are concerned about morals, continue to support Trump in overwhelming numbers?
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Repubs, power, and a really bad bill
If expert after expert told you that a proposed bill was a bad idea, why would you vote for it anyway? That’s what KY Repubs did this year. Let’s learn why.
McConnell’s finagling with courts has fueled real concerns about legitimacy of judiciary
“McConnell is the person who singlehandedly did more to destroy Senate norms of comity and respect, to help Donald Trump evade accountability, and to steal and pack the Supreme Court with people who should not be sitting on the court.”
HB5 is ‘emotion-based legislation’
Overcrowded jails and prisons will become even more crowded. Costs will soar. And crime won’t go down. These are the results of the GOP’s “tough on crime” debacle.
How Donald Trump worked to destroy America’s labor unions
Trump says he is a “friend of the working class” – but he’s anything but. Read on to learn why.
UK continues its anti-transparency tradition
The university’s motto: “That’s for us to know, and you to never find out.”
The GOP’s unrelenting attacks on women’s rights: This is just the beginning
There’s way too much celebrating around the unanimous SCOTUS decision yesterday which The NYT characterized with the headline, “Supreme Court Maintains Broad Access to Abortion pill.” It didn’t…
Thoughts on Sam Alito’s DGAF Justicehood
An excellent column by Josh Marshall on the absolute necessity for resilience in these times.
I got help. Now I give back. That’s how a healthy society should work.
If lawmakers slash the social safety net any further, millions of stories like mine won't be possible.
The Republican hubris in courting Black voters
After decades of doing all they can to suppress the Black vote, Repubs now claim Blacks should vote for them.
Swim coach scandal reveals value of open records
UK wasn’t forthcoming about their swim coach and the allegations against him – so John Cheves of the Herald-Leader used our open records laws to get at the truth. Without those laws, it would all still be a secret.
January 6 and February 6
So here’s Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s warning to the Trump true believers: “You think this is going to be your strongman. But he’s not going to be your strongman. He’s going to be his own strongman.”
Doing the right thing isn’t on Barr’s agenda – but he’s not alone
Andy Barr is saying and doing all he can to win Trump’s approval and possible endorsement. (And a VP slot?) And, he’s not alone.
Kentucky Republicans help Trump tear down the system
Trump has long been running on lies, and now Kentucky Republicans are facilitating those lies.
Ohio gives $2 billion away to private schools. Do we want that for Kentucky?
That giant sucking sound you hear? That is charter schools and voucher programs across the country, draining money from your public schools.
The whiny 77-year-old toddler
All his life, Trump has claimed that anything not going his way was “rigged.” Remind you of anything?
