I have been writing about the COVID-19 pandemic with dreary regularity for some 30 months now. In that time, more than 1…

You don’t see the word “giddy” much in the public prints these days, but it’s out there now holding hands with the…

Make no mistake: This is a blood-red alert. Democracy in the United States — tattered and shabby though it may be —…

No significant attempt has been made to tighten federal gun laws since Sandy Hook

We cannot wish COVID away

The virus is changing every day, yet we continue to react to it with half-measures and foggy assumptions that “the worst is behind us.”

The right wing is its own giant institution in this country. And as the last several years have told us, ruthless and violent tyrants aren’t always thwarted in the end

If Republicans continue to gain momentum, we can bet that our inexcusably sorry level of pandemic preparedness will plunge us even further into the depths of abandonment

This weird passage we’ve entered is the COVID policy version of throwing the parachute out of the plane and then jumping out after it

“We should be pretty humble about making predictions about what’s next.”