Media companies are consolidating in mega-mergers, and democracy is being sold cheap.

How conservatives’ demands that we save children do anything but.

Domestic instability is driving away our allies and investors, which may exacerbate instability in a vicious circle.

On stupid male aggression, then and now

For about thirty seconds.

The Eric Schmitt debacle is both a sign of how bad things have gotten, and how much we can still resist the lies.

A few things that caught my eye in the waiting room yesterday, and what they collectively mean.

A few things that caught my eye in the waiting room yesterday, and what they collectively mean.

ICE is outraged to be accused of disappearing detainees. But what else to call a system that erases records and sends people to prisons oceans away from home?

How mass deportations are about much more than immigrants.

One of the worst elements of the mass deportations has roots in the War on Terror – and the Clinton Administration before it

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

Xi’s reference to the Peloponnesian War was cheeky, but also a bit creepy. Are we missing the Athenian’s point?

Full of startling ignorance and absurd bluster, Trump’s speech was a low-budget thriller with a hint of real horror.

As Trump speaks inaudibly into the wind, the absurdity and hubris is almost too much.

Putin appears to be testing NATO defenses with increasing aggressiveness. Is it a sign of strength, or of weakness?

Why AI doesn’t, and does, worry me.

The Trump Administration is withholding federal funds at an unprecedented rate. Has the man never heard of pork barrel largesse?

Like “Homo Economicus,” the idealized rational actor of economic theory, the ideal juror that the legal system has constructed probably does not exist.

The Administration’s push to strip citizenship echoes that of another corrupt, aging dictator whose handiwork was also in the news.

It was a bad week for science at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Why nobody in authority will do anything about the risks of Artificial Intelligence

Which comes first? Some thoughts on human nature and the predicament of Trump.

Which comes first? Some thoughts on human nature and the predicament of Trump.

Is MAGA really a game of make-believe?

“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.“ – Martin Luther King, 1963

A few of the reasons that Rudy Giuliani is responsible for ruining our nation

Everybody is talking about what Trump might do to rig things before the election. Perhaps its after the election that we should worry about.

I wish I knew.

The Secretary of War is panicking about how few missiles he has left. But in terms of undermining our security, that is just the tip of the iceberg.

If the Trump Administration is not allowed to end birthright citizenship, they may just make it intolerable instead.

The Supreme Court won’t cross over to enable the USPS scheme to foil elections. Will they?

Why Franklin Graham turned down $300 million from the State Department

Out on the horizon, a bigger threat to the nonprofit sector is taking shape

The right-wing victim complex is one form, but the wider lack of trust permeating politics is indicative of deeper problems

Why would a man who is out of status cheer on ICE?

What the Lake Ontario absurdity tells us about the deeper problems in the Oval Office

It has been a terrible month for immigration news, but much of it has been boring, technical, and under-the-radar

What makes people want to accept the authoritarian boot?