Rights and Democracy
Our Immigration Policies Are Ridiculous
I recently stayed with a friend who lives just a few miles from the Mexican border — and from the start of the Pacific Crest Trail. Since I was there anyway, I thought, what the heck? I might as well hike a bit of it. I'd walked less than a quarter mile from the wall...
Trumped into a Corner
Horse Racing’s Shame — And Ours
One horse was already dead as Pramedya saddled up for the fourth undercard race of the 2016 Preakness Stakes, an annual Triple Crown race held in Baltimore. Unlike Homeboykris, who died of apparent heart failure after winning the first contest of the day, she wouldn’t...
For Billionaire Donors, Academic Integrity Comes Cheap
First came withering hoots of laughter when the honchos of George Mason University named their law school the Antonin Scalia School Of Law — or ASSOL, for short. It was an honor Scalia might've merited, but very embarrassing for the university. Even though...
Bipartisan Closets
Obama Promised Open Government, But Hasn’t Delivered Yet
President Obama took office promising to usher in an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability in the federal government. Back in 2009, when he said federal agencies "should take affirmative steps to make information public," he promised that the...
Toppling the Status Quo
A Coalition of the Unhinged
It’s no secret that Donald Trump, the GOP’s all but official new standard-bearer, is a promoter of wild conspiracy theories and harmful lies — from his smear of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers to his offensive questioning of President Obama’s place of...
‘Bathroom Bills’ Don’t Help Women at All
The time has come for me to play my Woman Card. A male Republican politician in my state of Wisconsin has introduced a "bathroom bill" like the one passed in North Carolina, which requires transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they were assigned at...
Riding Trump’s Coattails
