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ICE’s purposeful, cruel blunders

Many of the searing political moments of our time prompt stick-in-the-mind photographs, like the image from the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, of Black residents of Birmingham, Ala., being sprayed by powerful fire hoses. Or the image of the young girl kneeling next to the body of one ...

Trump’s insecurities imperil the U.S.

So far details of a settlement of the Greenland affair are scant to non-existent. Hours after his blistering speech attacking western European democracies and the global balance of law, President Trump announced a "framework of a future deal" for the "piece of ice," his own labeling of ...

Hold on tight, 2026 may get rocky

President Trump and Republicans are in a world of hurt politically. If the times were normal, the congressional elections this November would warrant an easy call: the House is going to flip, from a slim Republican majority to the Democrats being comfortably in charge. There are a number of ...

Trump’s sad dismissal of democracy

Of all the words President Trump spoke following the raid that brought Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro to a U.S. courthouse to face drug-running and other federal charges, the most important was the one word he failed to utter: democracy. "The future of Venezuela must be determined by the ...

MTG – we barely knew ye

Marjorie Taylor Greene leaves Congress this week. The former MAGA firebrand who fell out with President Donald Trump shocked the political world with her November announcement that she would give up her House seat on Jan. 5, at the halfway point of her third two-year term representing a rural ...

Making the moral case for politics

In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt invoked for a crowd of partisan Democrats the core tenets of the Christian faith. Revealed by the apostle Paul in I Corinthians, these are faith, hope, and charity, according to the King James version of the Bible Roosevelt proclaimed, "In the place of the ...