Nullius in verba
When I turned 86 a couple of weeks ago, it came to me that I started this column over half a century ago in 1971 at the New Mexico Independent. I’ve been writing it virtually every week since. That’s nearly two thirds of my life. I’ve seen a lot of very ugly and very beautiful […]
Massive sustained public support will be needed to repair the damage to climate change activism and the rebuilding of federal
Is Trump’s targeting of the West an act of political revenge?
In our country, it is illegal and morally deranged for officers of the federal government to threaten American citizens with political reprisals and terrible punishments for exercising one of their most sacred freedoms, their freedom of speech. The leadership of the Republican party, however, is doing just that, using the full force of the Department […]
The killing of Renee Good by a federal agent in Minneapolis last week has broken the hearts of millions of Americans across the country. It’s forced many of us to accept the profoundly dispiriting truth that we’re no longer living in an America that we can recognize as our homeland, as a nation ruled by […]
Here’s to a Christmas season filled with kindness, delight, and as much innocent merriment as the fates allow.
MAGA fanatics have set their sights on weeding out the evil “enemy within.”