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What we must do now

If the Trump regime can dictate what the universities of America teach or research or publish, or what students can learn or say, no university is safe. Not even the truth is safe. If the Trump regime can revoke student visas because students exercise their freedom of speech on a university ...

China threatens our medical care

China has a death grip on our medical supplies and consequently our ability to survive. It is the sole manufacturer of one hundred medications we commonly use, including antibiotics and blood thinners, and is the largest supplier of nitrate gloves, masks, syringes and other medical equipment ...

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a criminal?

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a good person? I don’t know. In 2021 his wife petitioned for, and received, an order of protection against him after she alleged domestic violence; she said last week that their marriage grew stronger after they worked through that low point and that Abrego Garcia ...

When a wrong narrative hides truth

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative. Such has been the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador, who ...

It’s the economy. It’s the economy.

Many in the Democratic base are frustrated that their party isn’t pounding away at Donald Trump over his attacks on the rule of law, academic independence and decency. That’s not quite the case. Democrats and others opposed to the president’s toxic agenda are seeing some success in the ...

Weaponization of federal government

There simply is no balderdash that Donald Trump hasn’t elevated to an art form, a point so obvious by now that it’s ceased to register. Lately, the Balderdash-O-Meter seems to crash hourly, as the president who claimed with a straight face to be running against a “weaponized” Biden ...