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Louise Linton is here to save us

There鈥檚 little need to scrutinize the big things when the little ones tell you all you need to know about the sorry condition of the Republican Party.Let us begin our melancholy tour with the Steve Mnuchins 鈥 he, the secretary of the treasury, she, his wife Louise Linton.Actually, it鈥檚 ...

Trump鈥檚 Trail of Smears

鈥淲e cannot and will not stand silent when our Native ancestors, cultures, and histories are used in a derogatory manner for political gain.鈥滼acqueline Pata, Exec. Dir., National Congress of American Indians 鈥 May 3, 2017---Our president never misses an opportunity to say or do the wrong ...

So, It鈥檚 Just About the Votes?

<em>鈥淚 could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn鈥檛 lose any voters.鈥</em>-- Donald J. Trump, presidential candidate, during a speech on Jan. 16, 2016As that messy Alabama senatorial race proceeds, we鈥檙e all getting a lesson ...

Harassment is in the eye of the beholder

David Remnick recently wrote in The New Yorker about the 1975 book 鈥淎gainst Our Will: Men, Women, And Rape鈥, a 鈥渟tartling and controversial鈥 feminist declaration 鈥渁bout the origins鈥 of male-dominated society.鈥淢an鈥檚 discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate ...

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Moore

I don鈥檛 have anything against Alabama. I鈥檝e never been there. I do, however, wonder why my father, who was born there, hardly ever mentioned it. He left Alabama as a teenager, but he never returned there before he died a few years ago.Alabama鈥檚 role in its resistance to civil rights may ...

Senator McConnell needs to act on Moore

If the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, is looking for a way to handle the Roy Moore case in the event Alabama voters send the former jurist and suspected pedophile to the U.S. Senate, he might cast his eyes back to 1926.It was that year when a disreputable Philadelphia ward healer by ...