On Wednesday, Donald Trump introduced TRUTH Social, a Twitter-like platform with posts that will hilariously be called TRUTHs instead of tweets, and from which the former president can preach to the faithful without "big tech," as he calls them, intervening to stop him from spreading delusional and often dangerous conspiracy theories. Trump's new platform will fail spectacularly and may even destroy the other right-wing social networks in the process. Here's why: 1 The Practi

Folks that have been around politics for a while knew that passing major legislation like President Joe Biden's infrastructure package and Build Back Better plan [now known as the reconciliation bill] in such an equally divided Congress was going to be difficult. The Senate with its filibuster rules which demand super-majorities to pass legislation, Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's obstructionism, and the lack of true bipartisanship were all working against succes

A Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) study released this week found that at least 90,000 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented since June had the victims taken the vaccines that were widely available. Most of the preventable fatalities, about 49,000, occurred last month as the more dangerous delta variant ravaged the U.S. To provide some perspective, that's more Americans than died as the result of 9/11, the Vietnam War, and the various War on Terror conflicts combined. These

Homophobes are in the news this week just to remind us that such bigotry still thrives in some dusty corners of our society. Jon Gruden lost his lucrative job as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after his homophobic emails surfaced on Monday, and the Republican Lt. Gov. of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, made headlines for calling folks in the LGBT community "filth." Robinson has since doubled down on his stupidity after facing calls to resign. It's difficult to understand

A new term of the Supreme Court begins this week and conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett seem worried that many of us will believe that the opinions they render over the next nine months will be the work of a "dangerous cabal," of "partisan hacks.” Both spoke out after an avalanche of criticism in response to their opinion in the Texas anti-abortion vigilante case, a decision that even many conservatives are finding hard to defend. The six conservative Ju

I was fortunate enough to attend the first Women's March in Washington after the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017. My wife Brooke and I joined hundreds of thousands of men and women who gathered to protest the election of a man wholly unfit for office. We were joined by millions of individuals in cities across the country and around the globe. It was one of the largest protests since the Vietnam War and Civil Rights era. Many of those same individuals were instrumental in