Column: Yes, we do have a lot to be thankful for: Each other
Trying to find something to be thankful for in 2020? Tough task. Facing it reminds me of the old joke that President Ronald Reagan loved to tell about a very...
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Column: Social media: Everyone’s sharing, no one is taking responsibility
Political correctness is not for liberals only. That immortal truth returned to center stage Wednesday as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified...
Column: How ‘defund the police’ sabotaged Democrats on Election Day
Democrats won the White House, whether President Donald Trump wants to face that non-alternative fact or not. But, as the celebratory confetti and honking car horns settled down, new disputes...
Column: This time Trump’s abuse of public trust is wounding democracy
How delusional can we Americans be? Hardly anything brings out the loony like a heated election, especially when our nation's tweeter-in-chief stokes the fires with misinformation from the White House....
Column: Another autopsy? Time for both parties to examine themselves
Call me skeptical, but something doesn't make sense about President Donald Trump's refusal to concede the election to Joe Biden by citing unsupported charges of vote fraud. For one thing,...
Column: Yes, Donald Trump has Black and Latino supporters. Democrats can learn from it.
Could this be the election that ends the "Latino vote"? No, I'm not talking about actual voters. I'm talking about the way many of us routinely talk or write about...
Column: Dick Durbin’s victory could lead to a promotion
In a victory that was only slightly more hard-won than it was expected to be, which wasn't much, Illinois voters have granted Sen. Dick Durbin his fifth consecutive term in...
Column: Are we a ‘democracy’ or a ‘republic’? How about both?
Are we a "republic" or a "democracy?" Every time I think this question — a golden oldie for grade school civics classes, high school debate teams and call-ins by C-SPAN...
Column: President Trump may be most memorable for his lies
For those who occasionally have dared me to say something nice about President Donald Trump, here you go: His first — and, I pray, only — term in office has...
Column: Don’t let politics come between friends
As an old feminist movement slogan goes, "the personal is political." Unfortunately, in today's polarized atmosphere you may not know politics are getting too personal until it's too late. A...