From his home in Buckinghamshire, England, my colleague Gary Tulie (pictured) writes: Dear Craig, I have been watching with interest the unfolding legal drama concerning whether or not Donald Trump did or did not engage in insurrection, and if he …
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The Greatest Political Gift
My politically conservative, life-long Republican mom and I had a conversation last night that I thought I’d share. Craig: If you could receive a Christmas present in the form of a breakthrough in U.S. politics, what would that be? Mom: …
Why Trump’s Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court re: Immunity from Prosecution Will Fail
Perhaps America’s greatest news story right now is Trump’s attempt to have the Supreme Court rule that he is immune from criminal prosecution because he was president at the time he committed the alleged crimes. Most of us view this …
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Ignoramus Has a Worldview He’d Like to Share
From a reader, apparently anxious to show off his ignorance of world affairs. If we don’t support worldwide democracies against the aggression of authoritarian regimes, we’ll soon be fighting these fascists on our homeland. If we won’t protect Americans’ intellectual …
The Poisoning of American Blood
This from Richard Stengel, author, political analyst, and former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration. He’s right, of course. What really matters, however, is that Trump’s base will never see this, and …
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Trump and Women’s Rights
Here’s another reminder of how remarkable it is that Trump has any support from women at all. It’s hard to imagine any self-respecting woman getting behind a candidate who has done so much damage to an entire gender.
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Trump: “Immigrants Are Poisoning the Blood of the Country”
This from former U.S. labor secretary Robert Reich. My perspective: the leader of the MAGA right has gone too far in his battle to regain the presidency in a desperate attempt to stay out of prison. The vast majority of …
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Society’s Loss of Its Capacity to Think
What mid-20th Century screenwriter/TV producer Rod Serling, famed for “The Twilight Zone,” said 50 years ago seems to have come true. There really is no other explanation for Trumpism, a set of beliefs so lowly and base that it’s really …
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Prosecuting Crime at the Top of the Food Chain
Here, Marla Vous is pointing to our two-tiered system of justice, in which people at the top can do essentially anything they want. As the poem below suggests, this has been a part of Western jurisprudence for quite a while. …
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U.S. Engaged in Epic Battle Against Higher Education
Social media is littered with memes like this one, each trying to convince us, that a college education is unnecessary, or more commonly, simply a bad thing. Now, if you’re today’s Christian-oriented, ultra-right-wing Republican party, it’s easy to guess the …
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