It's projected that we'll be dealing with the mental health effects of COVID for decades. For members of Trump's cancer cult, as well as those who have to share this country with them, it could be longer. It already has been....

In 1974, White House lawyer John Dean reported to then-president Richard Nixon there was a cancer on the presidency. That cancer has since metastasized and spread throughout our democracy ...

The body politic in any free society is subject to many ills, and as in our lives, the most dangerous is not COVID, it's cancer, and like cancer, sooner or later, every democracy has to confront it...

We are a nation built by and on the backs of immigrants, but have always had problems grappling with immigration. In the hypercompetitive global economy, that's a luxury we can no longer afford....

There couldn't be a better symbol for income inequality than the billionaire space race in full swing. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot being done to bring it back down to earth...

Good things come in threes. As we ensure our latest holiday, Juneteenth, is being properly observed, we should race to embrace the all-too natural third leg of the trifecta that began on 7/4/1776...

Some in our country want to start a Devolutionary War to erase not only much of the progress we've made, but further, all record and acknowledgment of our struggles to get where we are today ...

Another day, another mass shooting, and yet guns continue to proliferate, even as, not coincidentally, the peaceful resolution of disputes is increasingly restricted...

What progressives never expected him to be, he's been; what he most told us he wanted to be remains elusive...