Sure, the "No Kings" marches drew millions rightly protesting Donald Trump's assaults on our democratic institutions. But Democrats must dig deeper and ask how Trump could actually win another term after trying to overturn the 2020 election results with a violent attack on the Capitol. It ...
There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you. So let's kill cancer before it kills us. This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and ...
In Washington recently, the Foreign Minister of a Middle Eastern country under attack by Iran argued that Iran must at last be forcefully confronted by the international community, and that continuing to kick the can down the road when it comes to Tehran is unacceptable. "You have to be ...
When he ran for president again in 2024, Trump made three promises to the American public: First, he said he'd "secure" the southern border. Most Americans now believe he's gone too far in this. Second, he'd avoid foreign wars. He said: "We've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we're ...
When we meet, date, fall in love and finally marry the person of our dreams, the relationship evolves over time. Feelings ebb and flow, and are modified over time by experience. Feelings are very personal emotional states that vary in intensity and have been known to overwhelm thinking, ...
As a parent, I spend a lot of time thinking about our family's budget. Do we take a spring break trip, or contribute to the kids' college fund? Do we eat out less to offset rising health insurance premiums? Every day, we weigh wants against needs and make choices based on what really matters. We ought to do the same thing at the Legislature when we're spending taxpayer money. But right now, priorities are way out of whack. When it's your own paycheck, the decisions are clear. When it's public dollars, things get blurry and sometimes warped. Take the $40 million spending bill the ...
