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Commentary: Donald Kirk - Conservatism standing at the crossroads Donald Kirk FacebookTwitterEmail American conservatives face irrelevancy and division in their ranks. Traditional conservatism, the credo of “rock-ribbed” Republicans, has faded. Americans forget the post-war conservative presidents such as Dwight Eisenhower, the World War II general, and Ronald Reagan, who demanded Mikhail Gorbachev “tear down this wall” between East and West Berlin. Instead, far-rightists, evangelical C...

Commentary: Nika Kabiri - Conspiracy theories require sociological solutions Nika Kabiri FacebookTwitterEmail It’s not every day that Americans are charged with sedition, but it may just happen as more evidence emerges regarding the Capitol riots. It’s as though we’ve exited the age of the conspiracy “buff” and entered a new era. Whereas conspiracy believers of the past seemed relatively harmless, these days, their beliefs come with dangerous calls to action — which makes many of us...

Commentary: Craig Holman and Lisa Gilbert - Filibuster an accidental norm that should not be Craig Holman and Lisa Gilbert April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail It began as an accident, morphed into a parliamentary tool extensively used to block civil rights legislation, and today has grown into a partisan gambit threatening to obstruct democracy reforms and, for that matter, the entire policy agenda of the new Biden administration. It is called the filibuster. There is nothing in the U.S. Constit...

Commentary: Llewellyn King - Contemplating a post-COVID wardrobe Llewellyn King FacebookTwitterEmail But there is an additional, different question: What will we wear? Go to the mirror and look at yourself. Except for the odd Zoom meeting you might have tried to dress for, you are a different person. The fact is that even a traditionalist like me, who has worn a jacket and tie since his first days of school, is, well, letting down. Worse, after a year of sweats and other baggy, comfortable clot...

Two views: Harriet Tubman $20 bills | Christian F. Nunes - Go ahead, show us the Tubmans Christian F. Nunes FacebookTwitterEmail Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, with a record of never losing a single passenger on the road to freedom from slavery. She aided the Civil War effort as a Union spy, scout, cook and battlefield nurse, and in 1863 she led an armed raid that freed 700 slaves in South Carolina — making her the first woman ever to lead a U.S. military expediti...

Commentary: Karen Hobert Flynn - Why we need the For the People Act Karen Hobert Flynn FacebookTwitterEmail Coming out of a violent insurrection, an impeachment, and a Senate trial that saw only seven Republican senators vote to convict former President Donald Trump, it is clear that too many Americans are losing faith in our democracy. The jarring events of the last few months have shown we must take bold steps to bolster the trust of every American in our political system. We now have a once-...

Commentary: Jill Ebstein - To everything, there is a season Jill Ebstein FacebookTwitterEmail I’ve been hearing The Byrds’ song. “Turn, Turn, Turn,” in my head lately. It’s a great song, but it was written and played in 1965, so I can’t explain this phenomenon. But in the way that music subliminally speaks to us, I realized the tune and its words reflected my need to turn the page and begin a season of healing — as a nation. The last time I wrote about the deep divide in our count...

Commentary: Cory Franklin - For Shakespeare, to disrupt or not to disrupt the question Cory Franklin FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 In an old joke, a repertory company prepares to stage “Hamlet” when the lead actor dies just before the first performance. The company frantically appeals to the packed audience for someone who knows Hamlet’s part. A volunteer steps forward, an egotistical fourth-rate actor, and it is immediately clear he is terrible: So bad that when he reaches the famous “to b...

Commentary: Fiona Harrigan - Border wall construction stopped, but scars remain Fiona Harrigan FacebookTwitterEmail On his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued a presidential action putting an end to former President Donald Trump’s declared national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition to calling for a reassessment of the region’s security, Biden halted the construction of Trump’s beloved border wall. It marks the end of one of the more cartoonish and devastating...

Point & counterpoint | Vaccine priorities: Phyllis Bennis - Exclusion putting millions at risk Phyllis Bennis FacebookTwitterEmail They highlighted the same problem. It’s been nearly impossible for tens of thousands of eligible would-be vaccine takers across Washington, D.C., where I live, to actually get the shot. It’s the same across the country. Hundreds of thousands of doses promised to cities and states never arrived. Where there should be coordination, there’s been only chaos. Becau...