Could Democrats actually win in November?
Yes, it’s just one poll – but could it be right? Ken Wolf takes a look.
Commentary
Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
10 questions for Repub candidates this fall
Enough with pablum answers to innocuous questions! Here are 10 questions I want to hear Republicans answer this fall.
The dangers of student indoctrination
Nazis did it. Russians are doing it. Are we in the U.S. going to follow in their footsteps?
A 12-step program for more guns in our schools
There is a continual push by some to get more guns in our schools, including arming all teachers. Where might this lead?
Thank you for your servitude
“Sometimes you’ve got to laugh to keep from crying,” my grandmother used to say. This book had Berry Craig laughing out loud in the bookstore – until it didn’t.
Student debt and assault vehicles
Helping relieve the student debt burden would be one way of taking care of our young adults. Where can the money come from? How about bloated defense contracts?
Who can beat Beshear?
Forecasting is a dangerous business, whether in weather, the stock market ... or politics. Even with the risk, I decided to share some thoughts on the gov race. Do you agree?
Meet the new dark money Republican hoax and troll group, ‘Citizens for Sanity’
Conservative dark money groups have taken to weaponizing the paranoia on the Right, and that brings us to the current moment.
Fancy Farm is dead
“Not funny, just mean.” So wrote Garrison Keillor in the margins of homework – and so he would have written of the speeches at Fancy Farm. Teri Carter explains why.
Donald Trump as Uber Immortal
No one is above the law – except Donald Trump. He is an Uber Immortal. But what happens to uber immortals?
Christian Nationalism? Been there, done that
Guess what – Christian Nationalism has been tried before. As Ivonne Rovira points out, it didn’t work out too well.
Rand Paul is not a Libertarian; he’s a Corporate Libber
“Corporate Libertarianism, where we allow a libertarian system for the corporate elites while forcing a police state for the working class.”
Floods in eastern Kentucky were a man-made disaster, and we know exactly who is to blame
It wasn’t just the rain. It was the strip-mining, and the mountain-top removal, and the regulators looking the other way, that caused the floods in eastern Kentucky.
Some questions for Republicans about Trump and the FBI
In light of Republicans’ faux “outrage” over the FBI searching Trump’s estate, columnist Ken Wolf has some questions for those same Republicans.
Was Trump looking for an ‘alternative source of income’?
The chief of the DOJ’s Counterintelligence unit visited Mar-a-Lago in June. What documents was he looking for? And was he worried about those documents going somewhere else?
Rand Paul wants you to overpay for insulin. Can’t afford it? Tough.
Kentucky’s junior senator, who’s seeking a third term on Nov. 8, voted against a $35-per-month cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs for people not on Medicare.
