Yesterday marked the thirteenth anniversary of the Supreme Court case that re-wrote the political landscape. On January 21, 2010, the nation’s highest court handed down its ruling on the controversial Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) decision equating political spending with free speech covered under the Constitution’s first amendment. …

Two years ago, January 6, 2021, Donald Trump, then-sitting President of the United States, incited an insurrection against our government. His goal was to prevent the certification of the results of the 2020 election Joe Biden won by every measure. The attempted coup, thankfully, as we know, failed. But what…

After two years of historic accomplishments while Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, it would have been nice to be optimistic and not succumb to all the gloomy prognostications concerning the current republican majority. It would have been refreshing to hear the republican party repudiate Donald…

Did anyone really believe the GOP and its so-called “Christian” right puppeteers would conclude its war on women’s reproductive freedoms after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer? We weren’t fooled. We knew the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling was just a foothold into the all-out…

As 2022 comes to a consequential finale, it’s fitting to take a few minutes to consider what a consequential year it was for the Democratic party. The year started with significant legislation, the “No Surprises Act,” designed to eliminate surprise bills from health insurance providers for out-of-network care. It…

If you were paying attention to the election rhetoric being bandied about last month, you might have caught the talking point about “open borders” emanating from seemingly every republican’s mouth. Here are just some highlights: Ted Cruz: “Biden Open Border Policy [is] A Very Craven Political Decision.” Rick Scott: “Americans…

Headline from Business Insider: “The far right is calling for civil war after the FBI raid on Trump’s home. Experts say that fight wouldn’t look like the last one.” The New York Times: “Is Civil War Coming to America?” The Washington Post: “Is the United States headed for a civil…

Trains have a particularly sentimental place in our hearts. There’s something idyllic about a by-gone era when the railroad was the most efficient and technological form of travel. But with that romanticism comes a dark history of government time and again siding with the nation’s corporate railroad interests instead of…

It doesn’t take two weeks to drive through Spain, France, and Germany, my highlighted route to Poland, but that’s how long I’d been roaring across Europe in a rented Renault, living off fast food, spending nights in youth hostels, going anywhere the Rand McNally map I’d bought in Madrid unfolded…