1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (211+ words) Summertime — and the fight for democracy — is sizzling, especially in the states. Here’s what is happening across the country. [The outcome of the Kansas special election also stands to raise the stakes in the billionaire arms race for the judiciary....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (480+ words) Frederick Douglass wrote those words in 1856, but they could easily have been written this morning. I know I’m not alone in noting the hypocrisy of a people celebrating our nation’s founding principles at a time when those principles are eroding…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (404+ words) Meloni isn’t the first woman head of state to reject feminism. In 1870, Queen Victoria of England who, at the time, ruled one-fifth of the global population, said “Feminists ought to get a good whipping” and “women … would surely perish without…...