BY JIM HIGHTOWER OK, people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. Billboards must be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere, growing to enormous size, shouting corporate messages at us – and even watching and tracking us with their digital eyes. Now, though, rather than billboards becoming human, we humans […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Whenever I hear some otherwise smart person explain to me how Joe Biden is going to march in and become the Democratic nominee, or how “they” – whoever they are – are going to come in and save the Republican Party from Donald Trump, I pretty much know that person has never […]

BY VERN TURNER The cumulative effect of recent world events on my psyche produced enough incentive to write yet another summary of the human condition...

BY DAVID PERRYMAN “Ten years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These...

BY JOE CONASON From his opening slur against Mexicans to his current coddling of the Ku Klux Klan, Donald Trump has shaped the Republican presidential race into a character test for conservatives. For months, too many of the country’s most prominent figures on the right have failed to respond adequately to the threat he embodies. […]