It’s fitting that just a day before Veterans Day, House Republicans at least temporarily exempted Pete Hegseth from an impeachment he has fully earned by every available metric. He has

To Republican Voters Throughout This Nation, I’d like to congratulate you all on your astounding election victory this past Tuesday. What a week you’re having. OK, so, morally you lost,

The midterm election results were many things. They were a repudiation of the most openly corrupt group of politicians to ever defile the sacred halls of Congress and disgrace the

The night has a way of fooling you. Though it is a temporary condition, it can convince you it is a permanent state: that it will always be this dark,

An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election. I know many of them. They are family members, friends, neighbors, and people I meet in

We are a people in peril. The damage our Republic has sustained over the past two years is incalculable. There is no way to accurately quantify the irreparable harm done

They say God works in mysterious ways. I’m gonna co-sign that sentiment. Our decidedly purple North Carolina town recently held its third Pride festival. The first two incarnations were, by

Like hundreds of millions of Americans, I am preparing to go to the polls to cast my vote in the most consequential election of my lifetime, perhaps of this nation’s

This week, an alarming video surfaced of a woman being assaulted at a Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, for wearing a shirt that said, “Release The Epstein Files’ while heckling

Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they wear Primus t-shirts. This morning my newsfeed was filled with videos of a woman in a yellow jacket and concert tee being escorted

Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive. Everything discussed is alleged in a civil lawsuit filed by the family of Jane

I know singer Ed Sheeran. (Well, in a way I do, and so do you.) In the wake of the whirlwind of controversy over rapper Macklemore’s removal from Sheeran’s tour

(Photo by Peggy Sirota) Hey, Ed Sheeran, Well, you’ve had quite a busy week. You’ve caved to your billionaire buddy Robert Kraft, you’ve deferred to the pearl-clutching Pink, you’ve fallen

I feel like I’m losing my mind.” That thought runs through my head more than I’d like to admit these days. As someone who has navigated the past three decades

Hey MAGA, a quick word… I see you out here today, trying to claim Dolly Parton as your own, as if she were one of you, as if you and

This one hurts like hell. This planet has lost so much with the passing of Dolly Parton that it’s difficult to even find a foothold for the grief, a place

Dear Karoline, Well, here we are, or more accurately, here you are. I’d like to say I’m surprised, though that would be a lie. We all saw this coming for

Photo: Will Weissert, Associated Press Lindsey Graham is dead, and it gives me no joy. This is not a celebration; it is a lament. The moment any human being leaves

Hatred is a slow poison. Once it finds its way into the bloodstream, it gradually begins destroying a human being from the inside out. It does its work almost imperceptibly,

Dear Former President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama, History has a way of revealing the truth, eventually. Like the sun gradually coming up over the horizon and

Are you feeling this, America? What is unfolding at the Kennedy Center: This joyous subtraction. This glorious removal. This is the collective jubilation of watching a vile disfigurement reversed, a terrible

Hey, America. I get it: this feels like it’s never going to end, like this oppressive darkness will never lift, like the disorienting chaos of these days is now our

Hey there, we’re the Republican Party, and we’re pro-life! You are? Yup! Cool… so you’re for affordable healthcare for everyone? Umm, well, not exactly; we can’t just take care of everyone. Can you imagine