Senator Elizabeth Warren is known for several distinctive things — of late apparently goofy high school dance chaperone dancing is the current topic of discussion — but perhaps there’s no more powerful “branding” for her current campaign for president is the embrace of the slogan “I Have a Plan For…

While last weeks’ Democratic Presidential Primary Debate was clearly the most substantive and focused debate of the cycle so far (owing, one might assume, to the decreased population of qualifying candidates) the most high profile takeaway from the event, the part that’s provoked the most media attention by far, is…

Customarily this time of year is considered to be a time for thoughtful reflection, right? I mean sure, the cliche is that everyone is too rushed, too busy, too obligated, too stressed to really enjoy the spirit of the holidays that is heralded in song and story but still the…

God knows I’ve written about this before, here and elsewhere, notably here, and here. But this is so infuriating and so dangerous it seems I really have no choice but to engage the point yet again. Make no mistake, this view is not new for Biden — he said essentially…

It is a rule so common it sounds like a cliche but it is absolute fact: never base a conclusion on just one poll. That’s THE fundamental principle of poll watching. Nevertheless, for over a month we’ve been subjected to pundits commenting on fresh polls as if they some how…

It is, again, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, and it would be a failure to allow the occasion to pass unremarked. Still, I have to write this entry with a due measure of humility. Many many activists and writers will address this topic this week, more extensively than I…

So, y’all remember summertime Joe Biden, right? Genial Uncle Joe waxing poetic about how Trump was just an aberration and all we had to do was win next year and our national nightmare would be over. Democrats and Republicans could come together as in the halcyon days of yore back…

Last weekend I attended the Pride event in Tupelo, MS. Yes THAT Tupelo. It was a bright sunny cool day, the first cool weather of the fall, and everyone was in a fantastic mood. Several hundred attendees in all for what was an altogether family-friendly and inoffensive gathering. There was…

A great deal has been written this week about the deeply important trio of cases which were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday regarding the question of whether or not Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (which bars employment discrimination on the basis of sex) bars discrimination…