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Despair and Resignation Are Not a Strategy: How To Fight Back in a Second Trump Term Mar. 11, 2024
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Many polls suggest if the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump could return to the Wh... Read More
Biden's Priority Is Power, Not Democracy Feb. 13, 2024
Democracy is under attack, and President Joe Biden couldn't be happier. Last month, officials in Col... Read More
The Room Where ... What Happens, Exactly? Jan. 28, 2024
If there has been a recurring theme that has kept popping up for me in the last few weeks, it's this... Read More
You Can't Defend 'Democracy' and the Administrative State Jan. 26, 2024
The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord... Read More
Accused of Dictatorial Ambitions, Trump Doubles Down on Authoritarianism: His Understanding of Effective Leadership and Policing Should Repel Anyone Who Cares About Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law Jan. 24, 2024
Donald Trump, a longtime admirer of foreign autocrats, recently has been inveighing against the dang... Read More
The Emperor's New Clothes Jan. 18, 2024
Just as a fictional emperor paid his tailors a fortune for clothes that no one could see, and then m... Read More
Victimhood or Vengeance? Israel Wants Both Dec. 29, 2023
Victimhood or vengeance: choose one. You can't have both. Israel is about to learn that. Supporters ... Read More
McCarthy Paid for Enabling the Extremism of His Party. Only Voters Can Fix It. Oct. 06, 2023
So this is what it took for the U.S. House to finally show a little bipartisanship: Eight Republican... Read More
Trashing the Constitution Just to Get Trump Sep. 06, 2023
Innocent until proven guilty. That's a fundamental right in America, at least until now. Anti-Trump ... Read More
We Can't Tolerate Assaults on Free Speech Aug. 22, 2023
Emancipation of slaves. Women's suffrage. Civil rights. Freedom to worship, ignore or denigrate God.... Read More
Raid of Kansas Newspaper Is a Chilling Example of What America Must Not Become Aug. 16, 2023
If there has been one overarching theme to the tumultuous politics of this era, it is the repeated r... Read More
11 Things You Should Never Plug Into a Power Strip Aug. 08, 2023
Faithful readers will recall I've written on this subject in the past. Today, with proof that "teach... Read More
A Prompt to Colorado To Explore Nuclear Power Jul. 10, 2023
Most of Europe lacks the abundant coal and natural gas the U.S. long relied on to generate electrici... Read More
Biden in the Wind Jul. 07, 2023
Except for a modest number who go by ferry, almost everybody who travels between Marin County and Sa... Read More
The Founders Were Right Jul. 06, 2023
In our politically contentious era, it's popular to claim that the Constitution is outdated; that it... Read More
Biden in the Wind Jul. 05, 2023
Except for a modest number who go by ferry, almost everybody who travels between Marin County and Sa... Read More
Trump's Disregard for the Rule of Law Is at Least as Bad as Biden's: The Former President Reminds Us That Claiming Unbridled Executive Power Is a Bipartisan Tendency May. 17, 2023
Sometime this month or next, the Supreme Court is expected to tell President Joe Biden that he can't... Read More
The Sneaky Way the Police Could Abuse Their Power to Restrict Free Speech May. 08, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In 2019, police in Castle Hills, Texas, arrested Sylvia Gonzalez, a 72-year-old first-time city coun... Read More
Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy Apr. 18, 2023
Every schoolkid knows — or used to know — that the United States has three branches of g... Read More
The Power of Black Mar. 11, 2023
Black is used by designers all over the world. Industrial designers use it to accent shiny and polis... Read More
