There’s an old Russian saying that roughly translates to: “Today is about average; worse than yesterday but better than tomorrow.”
SCOTUS Is Eroding the Separation of Church and State
The Supreme Court has essentially handed them a roadmap to test their theory that if everyone just went to a nice Christian school and prayed a lot, everything would be super.
Divisions in America Are Even Worse Than You Thought
When conservatives fantasize about the glory of secession and civil war, it’s like a beer-swilling high-school dropout looking at porn on the internet, imagining about leaving their wife for the hot porn star on the other side of the LCD screen.
United Kingdom’s conversion therapy ban filled with poison pills
The proposal has carve-outs for religious-based conversion therapy that are broad enough to cover virtually any sort of therapy that assumes a veneer of religion.
Dave Chappelle Won’t Get Cancelled for Transphobia
Matt Walsh proclaimed on his show that the Spanish Inquisition “was far more defensible than modern-day cancel culture is, especially the cancel campaigns waged by trans activists.”
“Religion” is Not Good for America
Sometime shortly after 9/11, a fellow Lieutenant in the Navy asked me a rhetorical question: If one side believes a conflict is a war over religion and the other one doesn’t, is it a war over religion? This applies to the conflict in the U.S. today between people battling to take America back for their…
United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal obliterates Keira Bell
The Appeals Court invoked the mercy rule usually reserved for lopsided T-ball games where one side is being so badly beaten the referees stop it to prevent one side from being further humiliated.
Gloves Are Off on School Mask Mandates
In recent years, most ugly battles at school boards have been fairly one-sided. On the one hand, you typically have irate, hyperbolic conservative parents screaming at school-board members over the imaginary problem du jour, whether it is sex education, transgender students in bathrooms, transgender athletes, critical race theory, or mask mandates.
The Far Right and Anti-Trans Movements’ Unholy Alliance
Trans people have been under assault, by GOP legislators, the Religious Right, white nationalists—and anti-trans feminists. And it’s now escalating to an all-out war.
American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy
Trump is out of the White House, but American democracy is on the ropes and teetering on the brink of competitive authoritarianism controlled by theocrats and oligarchs. With its cherished institutions hobbled, political norms trampled, guardrails severely damaged, and body politic divided by chasms of race and geography, can the U.S. survive another administration dedicated…