Today’s consumerism-driven society has become more secular but far less humanistic.
An outbreak of measles has spurred a new right-wing coalition government to reassess whether vaccinations should be mandatory.
As the party of Trump purifies itself, true talent among Republicans is becoming a waste product.
The former president’s strength failed before his spirit.
It is because he has unethical jobs for them to do, involving schemes to remove political threats and gain electoral advantage.
Honorable people stood up to Nixon. Now the same must happen with Trump, a president without ethics or honor.
Many seem to have forgotten the difficult, desperate project of building a moral and legal structure around the principle of human dignity.
There needs to be an alternative focus of intellectual energy and moral leadership in the GOP.
Re-enfrachising certain felons may finally erase the long, heavy shadow of Jim Crow.
This tiny category of discretionary spending helps keep America safe.