Elections

Six feet apart or six feet under?

Democrats unify amid 45’s zombie apocalypse There is a Twilight Zone quality to the stillness of our normally busy cities as most of us stay home due to the coronavirus…

Flag Day meditation: How does America go forward?

June 14, 2019 Actors who have played villains have been known to have difficulty reorienting themselves afterward. There is the tragic case of Heath Ledger after his performance as The…

GLAA rates D.C. candidates in Nov. 6 election

GLAA: Fighting for LGBTQ equality in D.C. since 1971 P.O. Box 75265, Washington, DC 20013 For Immediate Release October 10, 2018 Contact: Rick Rosendall 202-328-6278 Bonds, Cheh, Allen lead GLAA…

GLAA Calls on the District of Columbia to Revise its Riot Statute

GLAA Calls on the District of Columbia to Revise its Riot Statute August 2017 Following the inauguration protest on January 20, 2017, 192 individuals are being prosecuted for felony rioting…

8 months later, Tess Rafferty’s scathing election response is still spot-on

I only just discovered this fine rant by Tess Rafferty this morning, July 5. It feels as timely as when she wrote it after the election. (Hat tip: Morgan McDonald)

7 questions as Trump unravels

Elizabeth Drew’s excellent piece on Trump in The New York Review of Books begins: If Donald Trump leaves office before four years are up, history will likely show the middle…

Trump’s Twitter secret revealed

Unlettered eloquence, as Dr. King said of Mother Pollard. (She said during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, “My feets is tired but my soul is rested.”)

Openly gay Leo Varadkar to become Taoiseach of Ireland

Patrick Maguire writes in NewStatesman about Leo Varadkar, the mixed-race, gay politician who was just elected leader of Fine Gael, Ireland’s center-right governing party, which puts him on course to…

Combating Trump’s poison

The latest commentary by David Brooks in The New York Times is titled, “Donald Trump Poisons the World.” Here is an excerpt: Far from being a band of brothers, [the…

Macron blasts Putin propaganda, challenges him on gay rights and Syria

Anne Applebaum tweets regarding the joint press conference today by French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Palace of Versailles: Macron attacks RT and Sputnik as…