To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
It Seems Impossible To Embarrass The Right
Tennessee passed a law that bans drag performances anywhere minors might attend. Happily, a federal judge stopped it. Very happily, the judge is a conservative, reminding all that some conservatives value principle over politics. The assumption underlying the law is that a performance in which a man wears a dress – or a woman pastes […]
When A Republican Lawmaker Confesses
No matter how often they are disappointed, Republicans perennially repose their political hope in baroque scandals and conspiracies. The further to the right they lean, the more fascinated they are by the most absurd and lurid narratives – a tendency that spawned the full-blown destructive cult known as QAnon, which blends authoritarian politics with gory […]
Taxing Clean Energy: What’s Wrong With These People?
Texas is currently America’s leader in wind and solar power. It provides 28% of America’s wind energy. If it were a country, it would be the fifth biggest source. Surprisingly, it’s about to eclipse California in production of solar power. And so why aren’t Texas Republicans bragging about all that? Why, on the contrary, are […]
Biden’s Bad Deal
When you negotiate from a position of weakness, you get a lousy deal. When it’s the best you can do, then the best you can do is make the deal and move on. That was the position President Joe Biden was in when he sat down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to avoid a fiscal […]
Why Women In The Workplace Are Stuck
If it feels like women’s progress in the workplace is stuck, that’s because it is. In 2002, women earned 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. Last year, after 20 years, there was two cents of progress – compared to the progress of the 1980s and 1990s, when the pay gap narrowed by 15 […]
