In an infamously bloody scene in The Untouchables (1987), Robert De Niro declared, “I get nowhere unless the team wins.” Three decades later, De Niro’s line is, in effect, Donald Trump’s motto–and if that motto is shared by a majority of the Alabama electorate, then Roy Moore is guaranteed to win the state’s special US […]
Leeann Tweeden
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No One’s Out to Get Al Franken
So, can we finally knock it off with suggestions that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was the victim of a right-wing hit job? If Franken legitimately believed that the allegations against him were either completely fictional or somewhat exaggerated, he would have immediately said so. It beggars belief that Franken, who went through legal hell in […]
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The More Difficult Conversation We Need to Have About Sexual Assault
‘It’s about the culture that empowers white men to abuse their power in a million ways.’
