The Holocaust was then – but anti-Semitism is now
It’s not enough just to remember the events of 78 years ago; we also must be aware of what’s happening right now.
Commentary
Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
The fall of Rudy Giuliani
From prosecuting the Mafia and being the popular mayor of New York, to being Donald Trump’s “lawyer.”
How a local columnist nailed what ails our public discussions
Can we find hope when our partisanship seems hopeless?
Distorting King’s words on MLK Day
The shameless appropriation of one line of a speech for political cover
Republicans practicing ‘economic blackmail’
Biden and the Democrats should make it clear: no negotiating with economic terrorists
On the emptiness of Kelly Craft
No, Ms. Craft. Just no. No matter how you spin it, this is not what it means to have an empty chair at your table, and you know it.
Beau on the debt ceiling and the Republicans
Some more straight talk from the guy in his garage.
Director of human rights commission compares today to the ‘60s
“We are in dark but different times. Racism is on the rise. Bigotry is on the rise.”
The Republican Party has left Mitch McConnell. He just doesn’t know it yet.
The only people still on his side is his caucus; how long will that last?
Remembering Sally Hemings on Martin Luther King Day
A part of the Thomas Jefferson story that most people don’t know or have forgotten
KYGA bill would give you new charges for medical records
HB 51 would end the practice of hospitals having to give you one set of your records at no cost.
Once again, the dog that didn’t bark
When politicians get revved up about an issue, but leave out the most glaring examples of it, that tells you something.
Money and violence, in football and politics
We’ve now entered the era of “free-agent politicians,” more interested in power and money than in actually governing.
Poor Kevin McCarthy: He can’t win for losing
McCarthy won a title. The far-far-right Freedom Caucus won everything else. And the rest of us lost.
Rural editor dreads writing her column
'The world has become an ugly place for us to exchange ideas and thoughts,' with 'baseless cynicism and unwillingness to think'
The puppet now running the House
In the end, Matt Gaetz and his buds told McCarthy to jump, and he asked “How high?”
