Centrist and progressive Democrats can’t stop fighting over how to fix America’s crisis-ridden K-12 schools. Truth is, each side has part of the answer.
Ted Kennedy
Posted inIn Memoriam
The Architect of Empathy: Suzannah Lessard (1944-2026)
The Architect of Empathy: Suzannah Lessard (1944-2026). Among the first editors of this magazine, the celebrated author and progeny of Stanford White, had a tumultuous upbringing and a nuanced moral imagination.
Posted inPolitics
What Liberals Can Learn From Ted Kennedy’s “Robert Bork’s America” Speech
A Fresh Look at Ted Kennedy’s Famous “Robert Bork’s America” Speech. The senator’s 1987 floor statement helped sink the jurist’s Supreme Court nomination and is considered by Republicans (and some Democrats) to have been unfair. Looking back, was it?
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2023
Ted Kennedy’s Lonely Liberalism
Liberalism is under assault. Already having suffered decades of reputational damage after Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan battered the word into oblivion, it is now rare to ever hear it with a positive connotation. The right wing continues to equate it with moral decadence and fiscal recklessness, while the hard left of the Democratic Socialists […]
Posted inMagazine
Ten Days of Grace
A former White House speechwriter remembers a critical period that shaped the Obama presidency.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford
They’re more aroused by destroying lives than Donald Trump was by Stormy Daniels.
Posted inPolitical Animal
If Andrew Gillum Makes History, One Floridian Won’t Be There to See It
If Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum defeats Rep. Ron DeSantis to become Florida’s next Governor on November 6, it will be an embarrassing defeat for Donald Trump and the Fox News fiends supporting the Republican’s campaign. It will be a tremendous victory for Sen. Bernie Sanders and those who have persuasively argued that the Democratic Party […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
We Have Met the Climate Enemy, and He Is Us
It’s about time we grapple with the ultimate inconvenient truth.
Posted inPolitical Animal
OCDS: Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome
We’re going to see more right-wing fear and mainstream-media awkwardness in the months leading up to November.
