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Are you shocked? Matt Gaetz as attorney general. A man with virtually no experience as anything other than an election denier, a Jan. 6 troublemaker who called the rioters "patriotic Americans," a man who was within days of a withering report from the House Ethics Committee on everything from underage sex to misuse of campaign funds, this is the...Read more

Turbulent times can make people feel helpless and hopeless, but we have more agency than we might think. We can still choose to live life on our own terms -- whatever that means for each of us individually. This is what the McCaffertys did. "So many people have fallen prey to this idea that what they do doesn't matter and that we're all doomed ...Read more

After an election, we make nice. The loser congratulates the victor; everybody shakes hands and promises a smooth transition of power. Spicy campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, such courtesies in service to the God of Stability are made possible by the underlying assumption that, while competing candidates and parties offer different ideas of how...Read more

Among the sharpest conservative opponents of fascism is George T. Conway III. During a Nov. 14 appearance on CNN, the attorney and activist offered this pithy description of Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Gaetz and Bobby Kennedy, the worst nominees (so far) to Donald Trump's cabinet:

"If you were seeking to destroy the country, the Gabbard, Gaetz, and ...Read more

As an enemy of the people, or "journalist" as we were called in the pre-Trumpian eras of light, I am at some risk of being silenced. How soon? Well, that depends on how many Fox News commentators Trump appoints to his new administration.

But writers, like cockroaches, can survive nearly every adverse condition. In fact, if cockroaches could ...Read more

Yes, Donald Trump took all seven battleground states and the electoral votes to go with them. This time he also won the popular vote, unlike in 2016. But let's put all that in perspective.

Trump took Wisconsin by less than one point. He won Michigan by only a point and a half. He did slightly better in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia with 2-...Read more

Sez Us is a new social media platform founded by long-time Democratic strategist Joe Trippi. It's an alternative to "X" and Truth Social, which are of course now wholly controlled subsidiaries of Donald Trump Inc. Trippi, who recently appeared on my podcast, "No Holding Back," is as smart as any Democrat I know and has been around the block ...Read more

The biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thundered in on Election Day.

Almost as if they conspired to make now-President-elect Donald Trump win, two are Democrats and two are Republicans. The four played distinct roles in a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.

The first Horseman is, of course, President Joe Biden, like aged King Lear ...Read more

Even in a barrelful of rotten apples, you might think there'd still be a few good ones.

But don't get your hopes up looking into barrels labeled "private equity investors." These esoteric, multibillion-dollar Wall Street schemes rig the marketplace so "high-net-worth individuals" can grab fat profits and special tax breaks to buy up doctors' ...Read more

The results of the election are in: Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the United States.

Trump's win comes after a campaign in which he consistently targeted immigrants, transgender youth and other vulnerable communities with hateful rhetoric. He also threatened retribution against dissidents and political opponents.

I know that ...Read more

In July 1945, just weeks after leading Great Britain to final victory over the Nazis, Prime Minister Winston Churchill found himself booted out of office by an electorate that didn't merely reject his bid to stay in power but did so overwhelmingly. Any notion that Churchill's historic achievements since taking command five years earlier would ...Read more

On a recent CNN panel, a Republican strategist cited a random article from last June about liberals having established a "resistance" to a Trump second term.

"Can we just have a couple of years of peace for the Republicans and President Trump to do what they promised to do because the American people are clearly asking for it?" Scott Jennings...Read more

The world of politics, as well as the globe writ large, was shaken to its neoliberal foundations this week by the surprise victory of Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who did not qualify for debates and was accorded little media coverage, in the campaign for American president. Stein, a 74-year-old physician, will mark a trifecta of history as ...Read more

Over the few days since Donald Trump's election victory, America has gotten a foretaste of the wreckage likely to ensue when he returns to the White House. His promise to endow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with plenary authority over health and food regulation -- and to let him "go wild" -- shows once more how little Trump really cares about anyone ...Read more

Too many American voters thought Donald Trump was the better choice for president. By doing so, voters put their name on their values and showed the world what this country really stands for. And why not? It's about time we dragged all of that American ugliness and fear out of the darkness and into the light so we can see it for what it really ...Read more

Someday, someone's going to have to remember.

If it's not too many years, it might not be that hard to remember, but if it's longer, it's going to be harder.

Someone will have to remember the old words, the words of The Constitution and Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. and all those old rusty amendments that let people vote.

And ...Read more