Across the nation, in congressional district after congressional district, state after state, the race has begun — the race between viewers’ thumbs and the Koch brothers’ pitch. In most cases, the thumbs win — find “mute” — before David and Charles Koch can tell them what a disaster the Affordable Care Act is…
Next November, the Republican Party is banking on the cranky. Don’t laugh. This appears to be a very good wager. Good enough to hold onto the U.S. House. Good enough, even, to take the Senate. Democrats don’t want to acknowledge that possibility, but it is way beyond real, and for two…
Everyone has experienced the oddness of meeting up with a long-lost acquaintance after many years, only to find impressions downright strange. So it is with me and marijuana. At least the smell of marijuana, that is. Though long an advocate of its legalization, I’ve never inhaled it, except in the ambient sense.…
As of mid-March, the nation’s rate of uninsured had declined to 15.9 percent from 17.1 percent in December. We can’t know exactly where the rate stands now, but it’s lower. And, well, the nation’s Republican leaders will not have that. They will do everything they can — and credit them for having done…
Regularly I drive past individuals praying out in front of Planned Parenthood. Supplication being a private thing, one can only imagine what appeals they direct skyward, out there in the cold and wind. I like to imagine that they are praying that all women, regardless of income, have access to safe…