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Will Bunch writes: “These pleas for ‘civility’ from comfortable people who can relate to the horror of a shunning in a posh burrito bar but who can’t put themselves in the place of tired and poor people who trekked more than … Continue reading →

Telling Maxine Waters to quiet down amounts to condoning, or at least minimizing the full evil of what Donald Trump is doing to this country and the world. The Democrats’ inability to confront the GOP has contributed to the country’s … Continue reading →

John Roberts will go down as one of the most extreme and partisan chief justices in the history of the United States Supreme Court. After drawing a bead on democracy via his decisions on Citizens United and the Voting Rights … Continue reading →

to offer any criticism of foreign policy as it’s been waged on a bipartisan basis. Sen. Murphy tweets: “Current American foreign policy in a nutshell, as endorsed by SCOTUS: Step 1: Bomb country (e.g. Syria, Yemen, Libya) Step 2: Creating … Continue reading →

that aggressive tactics nearly always pay off for Republicans–and the Democratic Establishment is just as consistently petrified at the thought of responding in kind?

This fall, American Ballet Theatre brings back Balanchine’s masterpiece of student instruction as well as sublime balletic reimaging of one of the world’s greatest pieces of music. Call it a Balanchine Personal Statement, like something you write for an entrance application. … Continue reading →

Mark  Schumer at Daily Kos peels back the civility scam: “While the right punches, the press plays stenographer, and when the left fights back, they declare fighting out of bounds.”

What in the world got into them? Or was this editorial written by a single reactionary, head-in-the-sander or worse, Trump-normalizer? Anti-Trumpists lectured because they’ve had it with Trump’s toxic, inflammatory hate speech and hate actions? Was Huckabee Sanders treated to … Continue reading →

As Jake Johnson notes on Common Dreams: Pelosi and Schumer “didn’t issue a single word of public criticism of their fellow Democrats for voting to deregulate Wall Street and hand President Donald Trump immense spying powers, but on Monday the Democratic … Continue reading →

In another brazenly biased and partisan decision, Roberts’ court says it’s OK to discriminate on the basis of religion and ethnicity. Can we all now agree that Obama’s capitulation to Sen. McConnell’s putsch against the Constitution was a complete disaster … Continue reading →