It’s time to answer the question
Now that Americans are facing the truth about sexual harassment, will they hold President Donald Trump accountable for his own bad behavior?Last year, after...
Everyone hates this tax bill
As the Trump tax cuts fly through Congress at breakneck speed, one has to wonder: What’s the big rush?Surely a body known for gridlock...
Is this the end of free and open internet access?
Free and open access to the internet is a virtuous democratic principle known as “net neutrality.”It means that it doesn’t matter if you’re a...
Trump’s weaponized ‘whataboutism’
President Donald Trump thinks lots of people should be investigated for wrongdoing. Just not him.Hillary Clinton above all. More than a year after she...
Time rightly recognizes women who spoke up
Time magazine declared “silence breakers” the Person of the Year for 2017, echoing and amplifying a sense, a hunch, a flickering of a notion...
Cheap, unattached sex is partly to blame for our current crisis
We are on the verge of some significant cultural change — at least we should be — if we are to effectively confront the...
Booze, guns, and big pharma
This week a new medical marijuana cultivation facility broke ground for construction in Yellow Springs. Suddenly, everyone is concerned about people using medical marijuana...
Why it’s so exhausting to be a Trump defender
President Donald Trump’s apologists in Congress are learning that defending him is like playing whack-a-mole; every time they think they’ve knocked down some embarrassing...
Rethinking an old story
It seems to me that these days there’s a lot of “trial by accusation or suspicion,” “ assumption of guilt without proof” and “everybody...
Trump puts fact ahead of fiction in Israel
The most exhausting thing about the Middle East — except for the bloodshed, poverty, tyranny, etc. — is that it refuses to conform to...
