Yeah, it’s the guns, Republicans. Of course it’s the guns. You’re insulting people’s intelligence when you claim that it isn’t. You’re trying to gaslight us all into imagining we’re not

As I write this it’s Saturday in America. It’s Saturday and there’s been another shooting. Once again we find ourselves here in this terribly familiar place. We are grieving again.

Every day I see people claiming to be Christians. They are everywhere I turn: on Twitter and on TV and at the gas station and across the street and at

“You’re such an angry person.” People say that to me lately—but not anyone who really knows me. Random strangers might lazily toss it off as social media shade designed to

Over eighty percent of white evangelicals (many of them women) voted for Donald Trump in 2016, less than two weeks after video surfaced of him speaking with historic vulgarity about

“If you don’t like this country, then leave.” This is the tired, time-worn refrain sung lately by supporters of this President. Love it or Leave it. Funny, I don’t remember

America is dead. Not the America that I idealized as a boy; not the glittering beacon of equality I imagined it to be through the vaseline-covered lenses of my maleness

Megan Rapinoe won. She won before the trophies and the adulation and the triumphant victory lap. She won before ever standing with arms outstretched as her teammates exploded with combustible

Yesterday a friend on social media challenged me to “only post positive messages for one whole day.” It felt like part social media campaign, part enthusiastic dare, and part gentle

I’m getting really tired of people saying that this President isn’t a religious man. The assertion is incorrect and unfair and it does him a terrible disservice. Donald Trump is

Sometimes reality isn’t reality, it’s just volume. The loudest people get to write the story that everyone hears, the one they come to believe is the only story. In this

I have a feeling that if the migrants were white, things would be very different right now in America. We’d never have heard anything about building a wall during the

Sakhorn/Shutterstock.com Something often happens to people exposed to repeated trauma. Gradually, they become conditioned to accept the horrors as commonplace. Time and brutality starts to wear down their defenses and

“You should let people know what you’re for, not what you’re against.” People often say such things to me. The implication, is that declaring your opposition to people or to

One day this will all be over. History testifies that all brutal empires fall, all hateful movements dissolve, all malevolent momentary victors eventually find themselves defeated and driven out. Every

Trump Derangement Syndrome. This is the go-to insult hurled by Trump supporters; a catch-all bit of gaslighting designed to malign the emotional state and mental faculties of decent, rational human

The last time I spoke to my father was on the telephone. He was departing on a cruise to celebrate his 70th birthday and we’d unexpectedly caught him a few

I need you to clarify something for me, MAGA friend. I’ve seen all your incendiary social media posts about the border crossers. I’ve come across the fictional statistics about their

Friend, this isn’t difficult. I hear you making everything harder than it has to be. All your striving and searching and pontificating is overcomplicating things and distracting you. You’re not

If you call your local cable provider to order service, at some point in the conversation the customer service representative will invariably make you an offer. He or she will

Take a good look, America. This is your “lesser of two evils.” This is the result of your third party, middle finger protest vote. This is the fruit of you

Dear Church, The Exodus has begun and it’s not going to stop. People are leaving you and they’re probably not coming back. I’ve been where you are and I know

Conservatives love embryos. They tell us all the time. They speak effusively about them in conversation, publicly revere them, shed crocodile tears over them, accost strangers entering clinics over them,

Hillary Clinton was right about everything. She was right when she warned us that Donald Trump was in bed with Russia. She was right when she said our election process