The mail is vital to our society and our democracy — The Postal Service is in danger. The change in the daily patterns of life brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has hit USPS revenue especially hard, but Americans depend on the USPS more than ever in these troubled times. …

It took 70 days for the White House to take Covid19 seriously; in that time they squandered hundreds of thousands of American lives. — There’s a story in the Washington Post that describes the failures that have brought the United States to the place we are now — a quarter-million COVID-19 cases and a thousand deaths a day. Those failures lay squarely at the feet of Donald Trump. As a president, as a leader…

The next month will be a bitter one and we must face it together separately. — For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends. — Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound For a guy that lived more than 2500 years ago, Aeschylus was certainly prescient about our present reality of social distancing. …

No matter the nominee; this is the fight of our lives — These do seem like dark times. The Senate’s refusal to actually try Trump’s impeachment, while hardly a surprise, confirms the suspicion that our institutions may not save us. McConnell’s announcement that he will hold a vote should another Supreme Court Justice step down heralds the possibility of a generational shift…

The killing of Soleimani showed us a new side of a criminal president — In the immediate aftermath of the drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the White House has argued that the strike was necessary because there was “specific information on an imminent threat, and those threats included attacks on U.S. embassies.” [Emphasis added] That phrase “imminent threat” matters here. It…

War is a continuation of politics by other means — On Friday the United States military, at the express direction of the President, conducted a drone strike on General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Quds Force. Here’s what you need to know. How important was Soleimani? It’s fair to describe Soleimani as the second most powerful man in Iran. He held the title…

You didn’t think this would be easy, did you? — With a swing of Speaker Pesoli’s gavel, Donald Trump became the 3rd President to be impeached by the United States’ House of Representatives, a distinction he shares with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. A little house-keeping, since there seems to be some confusion over this matter: impeachment is not removal…

What did your family fight about this Thanksgiving? — In one of Trump’s absurd rallies, the actual President of the actual United States said the following: You know, some people want to change the name “Thanksgiving.” They don’t want to use the term “Thanksgiving.” And that was true also with Christmas, but now everybody’s using Christmas again. As the…

That’s not real advocacy. — There’s a story you might have missed in The Hill which really lays bare the lengths Republicans are willing to go to in order to discredit the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. You can read the entire story here but the crux of the matter is as follows The RNC…