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The late U.S. Senator’s strength flowed from his unshakeable belief in the ground rules of fairness, justice and equal opportunity.

There is no greater political crime in a democracy than to suppress the opposition with the threat of legal or physical violence.

I’m just now recovering from the communal kick in the head many of us suffered last week. I know many of us have sweated out dark nights of paranoia. We’ve crumbled under fathomless sadness and stood up again. We’ve admitted to ourselves that we can’t honestly say we understand emotionally or psychologically what happened to […]

Of all the dire possibilities of a second Trump administration looming on the horizon — including mass deportations, the Nazi-esque persecution of political enemies, the complete denial of climate change and the lethal coddling of polluters and their pollution — the GOP’s demonizing of the federal bureaucracy has the most wide-ranging and sinister implications, especially […]

Millions of Americans agree with what four-star general of the Army, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, has said about former President Donald Trump — that he’s “a total fascist” and “now is the most dangerous person in the country.” Given Trump’s hysterical threats of revenge against his “enemies,” his […]

Is there any way to end this degrading foolishness?