That’s how it always goes in today’s GOP. Lawmakers spend huge amounts of time and energy manufacturing fig leaves for their ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

On Independence Day, I will sincerely celebrate a nation that, despite its demagogues and fools, was capable of producing an ...

On the eve of our nation's 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel "extremely" or "very" proud of ...

A GOP lawmaker wants President Donald Trump's bust "promptly" added to Mount Rushmore after Trump's mega domestic policy and ...

Juneteenth came and went, but curiously something seemed to be missing from the annual celebration: a cordial salute from the ...

First a disclaimer: America has been responsible for appalling savagery in the past 250 years. There is no sugar-coating our ...