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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” ––Mark Twain Sometimes I hear from ordinary people who wish to do something about the multiplying threats to…
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By the time you finish this paragraph, Donald Trump could have issued another ultimatum. He would have drawn a bright red line in the sand, a wave would have washed it away, and he will…
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Donald Trump has never believed in the rules that supposedly govern the American system. His personal history has been built on breaking these rules, avoiding their consequences, and…
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The seven largest publicly traded U.S. health insurance companies made a collective $71.3 billion in profits last year, and their CEOs took home a total of $146.1 million in…
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For years, Donald Trump has projected an image of supreme confidence—boasting about his intelligence, touting his memory, and mocking political opponents as feeble-minded or senile. But…
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There was a time—long ago, when the Earth was cooling and economists still wore bow ties unironically—when the Bureau of Labor Statistics toiled quietly in the chiaroscuro shadows of…
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There was a time—not long ago, though it feels like several scandals ago—when Donald Trump demanded full disclosure of the Epstein files. “Open it up!” he declared, arms raised as if…
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And it’s no longer just Trump we should worry about. Check out your local commissions, school boards, and sheriff’s offices, for example. They all seem to be goose-stepping to MAGA’s…
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His most dangerous crime is not simply corruption or obstruction, nor even incitement of insurrection: It’s the deliberate attempted destruction of American democracy itself.
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Imagine one Maria Torres—a mother of three and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. On a quiet morning in Phoenix federal agents knock on her door. She isn't under investigation.…
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