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Why I Was Heartbroken Nov. 08, 2018
The October 27th Shabbat massacre of Jews at Tree of Life, a Pittsburgh suburban synagogue, cannot b... Read More
The Growing Consensus for Legalizing Marijuana Nov. 08, 2018
The United States remains starkly divided between red and blue, with Republicans and Democrats each ... Read More
Legislate or Investigate Nov. 08, 2018
Nationwide, there are massive sighs of relief that the midterms are over and election ads, flyers an... Read More
The Election's Over -- Now What? Nov. 08, 2018
It was almost unsettling to wake up the morning after the election and realize it turned out pretty ... Read More
Democrats' House Takeover Contains Important Messages for Both Parties Nov. 08, 2018
President Donald Trump told America to view the midterm elections as a referendum on him. On Tuesday... Read More
Nine Takeaways from the Midterms Nov. 08, 2018
The much-anticipated "most-important-midterm-election-in-our-lifetime" is over. Democrats have a nar... Read More
Get Out and Vote Nov. 06, 2018
Every election is historic. But the contests that culminate tonight when ballots are counted may be ... Read More
Who's to Blame for Political Violence? Terror Starts at the Top, Trickles Down Nov. 02, 2018
There are no eye sockets big enough for the eye-rolling I want to do when I hear American politician... Read More
Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre: Obama Slams 'Hateful Rhetoric' -- Did He Mean Trump's, or His Own? Nov. 01, 2018
Former President Barack Obama received praise for his response to the recent murder of 11 people at ... Read More
Young People Can Alter the Course of Elections. But They Have to Vote. Oct. 31, 2018
In America, young people don't vote, especially in midterms. In the 2014 midterms, only 16.6 percent... Read More
Beware of the Real Gremlins This Season Oct. 31, 2018
As we enter another long season of direful winter darkness, we are beset by back-to-back waves of sp... Read More
Not About Left vs. Right, but Insider vs. Outsider Oct. 30, 2018
Democrats have had all of the opportunity in the world to win and win big in this year's midterm ele... Read More
'America's Heartland' Has Reason to Be Underwhelmed by Trump Oct. 29, 2018
Conspicuously absent in the campaign pitches of Midwestern GOP politicians are enthusiastic statemen... Read More
Predictably, Republicans Hint that Tax-Plan Deficit Justifies Entitlement Cuts Oct. 26, 2018
So it begins. As congressional Republicans ushered in last year's big tax cuts, saying they would pa... Read More
Which Team Will Be the Lesser of Two Evils on Election Day? Oct. 25, 2018
For the past two years, many Democrats thought that victory in 2018 would simply be a matter of runn... Read More
Heroes and Villains Oct. 25, 2018
The controversy over the years of sexual abuse against young women meted out by now disgraced and in... Read More
Dems Repeating GOP Mistakes of 1998 Oct. 25, 2018
The Democratic Party is in the process of repeating the same mistakes the Republicans made as the 19... Read More
5 Things Canada Got Right When It Legalized Pot: What We Can Learn from Our Northern Neighbors Oct. 24, 2018
It turns out that when you legalize marijuana, a lot of people show up to buy it. That development s... Read More
A Bawdyhouse of Bad Right-Wing Ideas Oct. 24, 2018
Ideally, elections are about ideas. In our dark times of money-soaked, bitterly negative campaigns, ... Read More
