Have we all gone bananas? Or have just a select few in our bunch gotten overripe? These days we seem to be bordering on a republic of a certain kind, but with the opposite of 25% off on everything in the store...

When Trump axed the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Voice of America went silent all over the world, much to Russia's delight. And that's hardly the only American voice he's been endeavoring to silence...

Reports of its death, like everything Trump says, may be greatly exaggerated, but he and Musk aren't even playing Munchausen by proxy at its bedside. Are there doctors in the house?...

Donald Trump thought he was being provocative when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico, but he wasn't even particularly original--the Gulf of America has been both a natural and fabricated part of our landscape for quite some time now...

In his inaugural address, Donald Trump promised America's "golden days" were coming. Maybe he was thinking l'etat, c'est moi! as usual, but we're pretty sure his supporters will be a getting a golden daze or haze instead...

Who was Jimmy Carter? Among other things, he was remembered as an underrated President, a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, and a Sunday school teacher. We remember him as a role model...

"In a democracy, every citizen ‘holds office.' We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve." --John F. Kennedy...

It's January and our government is under attack again, once again from within, once again unjustly. Which isn't to say the attack is unprovoked, nor that it can't/shouldn't be repelled in ways that could keep the peace for a generation--or more...