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UK voters decided to leave the European Union yesterday. From this side of the pond, things don’t look good. The right wing drove what turned into a very ugly process and initiative is in its hands in the vote’s wake.…
The visit to Orlando by President Obama and Vice President Biden surely gave some comfort to the people of that city, first and foremost, to the grieving families and the gay community. But only the passage of time and sustained…
After listening to Trump’s reactions to the awful mass killings of gay people in Orlando (who did nothing but joyfully and unapologetically celebrate their humanity and sexuality in what they thought was – and should have been – a safe…
Heard this song this morning on my way to my new hangout, “The Outdated.” (coffee shop in Kingston, NY). Couldn’t help but think of the horrific hate crime in Orlando that took so many lives for doing nothing but following…
I think the notion that Hilary is an unmitigated disaster, but a bit better than Trump is wrong on more than one level, and especially on matters of democracy, broadly understood. We don’t have to heap praise on her at…