Nothing in this life comes for free, even though we sometimes imagine it does. Everything valuable we receive needs to be paid for somehow. Eventually the bill comes due for

There are phrases you hear so much, they start to become white noise: “You’re too political.” “You’re too angry.” “You’re too partisan.” I’ve been a registered Independent for thirty years.

It’s a real shame that school children aren’t guns. If school children were guns, Conservatives would treat them with kid gloves. They’d be ever so careful with their words so

A year ago I walked into an older relative’s house unannounced. They’d been expecting us that day for lunch, but we’d arrived thirty minutes earlier than we’d planned—so we knocked