<em>“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”</em>-- Donald J. Trump, presidential candidate, during a speech on Jan. 16, 2016As that messy Alabama senatorial race proceeds, we’re all getting a lesson ...
David Remnick recently wrote in The New Yorker about the 1975 book “Against Our Will: Men, Women, And Rape”, a “startling and controversial” feminist declaration “about the origins” of male-dominated society.“Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate ...
I don’t have anything against Alabama. I’ve 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’s role in its resistance to civil rights may ...
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 ...
<em>“It is here in Virginia that we sent a powerful message to the nation that bigotry, racism and lies will never defeat love, fairness and truth.”</em>Susan Swecker, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia, last Tuesday night--When President Trump embarked ...
Shelley Glessner is encouraged “a little bit.” The same can be said of Jim Davis. Both see some running room for western Pennsylvania Democrats, though both are realists: until further notice, our small but significant corner of the world remains Trump territory.Glessner and Davis are local ...