The Racist Republican Replacement LieTo be a Republican in 2022 is to be committed to the belief in and propagation of three great lies: (1) The Big Election Lie that holds…May 29, 2022May 29, 2022
The Center Will Save UsImagine a democracy where a wildly narcissistic leader comes to power in a free and fair election, then takes the country sharply to the…May 1, 2022May 1, 2022
Sign Up TodayLike what you’re reading? If you’re a progressive Democrat, particularly but certainly not exclusively in Illinois, you should be reading…Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022
Accentuate The PositiveIt seems like the sequel to Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day came out last week and it starred President Joe…Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022
Dems solve problems while R’s only obstructConservative columnist and never-Trumper S.E. Culp recently wrote a column in The Daily News where she summed up the Republicans’…Dec 20, 2021Dec 20, 2021
Democratic MessagingDemocrats -and major news outlets- spend an awful lot of time shining a spotlight on issues where we disagree with each other. Or they say…Nov 23, 2021Nov 23, 2021
Reading the tea leaves for 2022The conventional wisdom is that the incumbent president’s party gets clobbered in the midterm elections in both the House and the Senate…Jun 7, 2021Jun 7, 2021
I hate to say it, but it’s time to kill the filibuster.I’m old and I put a very high value on tradition in both my religious life and political life, so when Dems talk about abolishing the…Mar 7, 2021Mar 7, 2021
Rx for success: How to win now and in 2022The depth and breadth of the damage Donald Trump and his enablers have wrought on the federal government is impossible to convey in a…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
The Top 10 Good News Items Buried In The HeadlinesMy grandfather, William Kopolsky, was brought to America as a small child, fleeing the pogroms in what is now Ukraine. He worked in the…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
Will He Stay Or Will He GoThis question has been on our minds for over five weeks, and although we know that Trump is going to leave, we’re all so traumatized we…Dec 22, 2020Dec 22, 2020
Don’t Forget To BreatheI was tempted to begin this post with the phrase “barring anything unforeseen,” but I understand that in 2020, that’s a fool’s mission…Oct 15, 2020Oct 15, 2020
Waiting For ResultsLest there was any doubt, we now know for sure that Trump fully understood that the coronavirus was deadly and that it was spread by…Sep 12, 2020Sep 12, 2020
MotivationA lot can change, but with less than 100 days left before the election, it sure looks like Trump will lose ‘bigly.’ Much of this is driven…Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020
I Can’t Breathe — Suffocating Justice in AmericaThe brutal murder of George Floyd under the knees of Minneapolis police officers was another sad data point in a long and terrible story…Jun 6, 2020Jun 6, 2020
The Coronavirus Has ArrivedThe novel coronavirus COVID-19 is here, and it is going to spread far and wide. That’s the report from the Centers for Disease Control…Mar 1, 2020Mar 1, 2020
20/20 Vision on 2020There’s a lot we don’t know about how 2020 will shake out, but there are a few things we already know for sure.Sep 15, 2019Sep 15, 2019