Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.
I can assure you that women all over the country are paying close attention to the GOP 'War on Women.'
Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.
While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what's best for America, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner assume that the president is cynically trying to secure his own reelection, power, and legacy.
For a while under Donald Trump, it was possible to believe that we could go back to a more functional, less rancorous time. This desire was expressed most eloquently at John McCainβs funeral services.
People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming.
You cannot win the democratic nomination if you are not trusted on the most important issue to democratic voters.
To my friends on the right, Katie Hill's national shaming is as much an example of an out of control cancel culture as anything that we've seen.
How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?
The corporate takeover of America pre-dates Trump and it will outlast him. This president has revealed the rot of America. He has made it worse. It will take more than ousting him to fix it.
A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal.
For decades now, Republicans and Democrats have shared the same mythology around the great American meritocracy. The only real difference was that republicans thought the American meritocracy was already perfect and Democrats believed it could be perfected if we just dealt with racism and sexism and other forms of bigotry.
Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.
If you hang around political talkers or strategists much, youβre likely to hear a lot about authenticity. This is supposed to be the golden currency which we all look for in our leaders.
Serious concerns about worker safety and fair treatment have been reported at Amazon warehouses. Workers have fallen ill from extreme heat, had to urinate in bottles because they donβt have enough time to use facilities, and been unfairly terminated.
There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the whole thing out⦠the entire thing, every detail, answer the questions and move on.
Once we accept our own basic worthiness we cannot help but see the basic worthiness of every other human.
