We fooled ourselves, good people. For the last four years we told one another a necessary story. Because we wanted to believe the best about humanity, many of us clung

During his Inaugural address, just as he had done many times on the campaign trail, President Biden once again delivered a heartfelt plea for national unity, saying: Today, on this

This is a sad day for America. That’s all a former friend of ours could post on social media during the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. A sad

Dear President Trump, In the waning hours of your presidency, I wanted to take a few moments to express my deepest gratitude for all that you’ve done. It will be

This week we’re inaugurating a president who has received a historic number of votes, winning by a staggering seven million.   We’re inaugurating a brilliant woman of color as his

MAGA friend, you can admit it now. “Blue Lives” never really mattered to you, did they? At least, not as much as your white life. Don’t worry about letting us

Many of the faces were already familiar. We saw them in real-time, smashing Capitol building windows, scaling walls, and parading through the halls of Congress, beaming with self-satisfaction. We could

Samuel Corum/GettyImages The Scriptures say that the truth will set you free. Right now, millions of white Christians in America are in a fortified prison of our own design; the

A brazen act of white domestic terrorism on our nation’s Capitol: thousands of people streaming toward the seats of Congress, with nothing between them but a flimsy chain link fence

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

Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Reuters For years, people have been talking about Donald Trump’s “mental state,” throwing around the term mental illness as a lazy catch-all for his erratic behavior, inexhaustible

This is hell. It is the stuff of nightmare visions, more vile and brutal than the mind can fathom, a place of breathtaking terror. It is the cold, sterile, fluorescent-lit

Dear 2020, We need to talk. (Whew, this is awkward.) I’ve been trying for twelve months to find the right way to say this, the perfectly constructed arrangement of words

It’s easy to feel like we lost this entire year but that’s not exactly true. We aren’t merely a victim of this insidious virus, either. That perspective makes the collective

Pro-Life. They keep using those words, but I’m pretty sure those words don’t mean what they think they mean. I’m almost positive pro-life Republicans aren’t pro-life, in any way that

COVID beat America—completely, unequivocally, and historically. There’s simply no way around that truth. We have been decimated far beyond even the most dire calculations back in the Spring of 2020.

Friend, we need to talk. It’s time you realized something that may be difficult to admit: you’re not who you think you are. I know who you believe you are

Yesterday, a friend of mine and I were talking about the excruciating wait for Inauguration Day: watching the president attempt every desperate and Unconstitutional political maneuver to overturn the election

I know what you want right now, friend. You want this to all be over. You want your home to be full again. You want to hear the sounds of

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Dear Evangelicals, I thought of you today. I was reading the Bible. (You may remember the Bible from a sitting president’s recent upside-down, tear-gassed, church steps photo

America, we will soon say goodbye to something. One way or another, this will end with a farewell. It will either close with a glorious, triumphant blast of freedom—or with

AP Photo/David Goldman Unity. That’s the word I hear a lot right now. In the wake of an election that is still being inexplicably contested by the former president and

President Trump, I wonder how much pain you’re willing to cause America. Apparently, more than you already have. It isn’t enough that you have spent every waking moment of the

The delayed results of the presidential election will be revealed soon, but in many ways, those results will be secondary to what we already know now: we were wrong about