I had planned to skip writing a blog post this week because I'm just so tired. But as I wrote the intro for my weekly newsletter, I decided to share it as strictly opinion. I don't have the energy...

The final US Senate seat will be decided by a runoff election in Georgia on December 6. Democrat incumbent Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) is running to maintain his seat against challenger...

Election Day is this coming Tuesday, November 8. I’m sure you’ve heard people saying democracy is on the ballot. We’re voting to maintain the rights we have, or the general public...

The mainstream and fringe media both seem to have found a model that works for clicks and views – outrage. It seems the role of US journalism is no longer to inform, but instead to generate...

On October 6, President Biden announced that he was pardoning “all prior Federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana.” He has directed the Attorney General to create a process...

So many things are happening that I want to do something about. I know I’m not the only one feeling like I don’t know what to focus on first. Just deciding how much effort to put into...

On August 24^th, President Biden announced his plan to address student debt. The plan has 3 key elements:

• Debt Relief - Up to $10,000 in debt relief for individuals with loans held by the...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the attacks on trans rights in the US:

• Florida wants to detransition all youth in the state, and in June the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration issued a...

It’s been a top news story since Monday, August 8^th that the FBI conducted a search warrant on former president Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Almost immediately the GOP...

Last week, many of us were surprised to learn that the Democrats were still working behind the scenes to make progress on legislation to curb climate change and reduce prescription drug prices....

Last week I wrote about the mass shooting in Buffalo where 13 people were shot and 10 died while they were grocery shopping. My grief was raw. I was just starting to feel like I could breathe,...

The U.S. was the site of another mass shooting on Saturday. Ten people are dead and another three are injured. Eleven of those shot were Black. The shooter is an 18-year-old white man who drove...