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In granting “absolute” immunity from criminal prosecution to a sitting U.S. president conducting official business, and in undermining the partnership between Congress and the executive branch in implementing laws through regulation, the U.S. Supreme Court has become the aggressor in a guerilla war to redefine the meaning of the checks and balances that are at […]

In dangerously complicated times, every power group reverts to form.

The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court staged a bloodless but unscrupulous coup last week, a bald-faced power grab that replaced the balance of powers and the rule of law with a Jesuitical version of Christian nationalism, complete with the divine right of kings for the president and the presumption of judicial infallibility for […]

In this fateful election year, the Republican party is choosing to offer American voters nothing but NO. No to treating the homeless like human beings. No to stopping greenhouse emissions and battling climate change. No to federal workers. No to unions. No to teachers. No to public education. No to opposing racism. No to civil […]

While poverty and pollution are bad for anyone’s health, they’re much tougher on children from poor families, as all social and environmental troubles are. But just because a family lives in a low-income community that suffers in baffling ways from pollution doesn’t mean their kids are ill-treated and unloved.         When we read headlines that […]

The oil and gas industry has a lot to answer for, everywhere in the world, including New Mexico. Fossil fuel extraction processes, particularly venting and flaring, are the direct cause of some $7.3 billion in health costs in our country every year, according to a study conducted recently by the Boston University School of Public […]

A bold spirit of the citizenry is needed to tackle issues like gun violence and pollution.