Joe Biden, 81 and alarmingly feeble, refuses, at least for the moment, to pass the torch of presidential leadership to a younger Democrat. Meanwhile, the possible reelection of convicted felon Donald Trump, 78 and barely rational, looms like a doomsday…
Trump’s evangelical base believes God spared him from an assassin’s bullet for a purpose
Many evangelical Christians who already have declared Donald Trump to be God’s anointed choice for president see his near-assassination last Saturday as further sign of God’s favor and protection. And other Christians who oppose Trump see his near-miss as a…
The hypocrisy of House Speaker Mike Johnson
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that “when the message goes out constantly that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy and that the republic would end, it heats up the environment.” Johnson called for…
What does it mean that JD Vance’s wife is the daughter of immigrants and Hindu?
The most anti-immigrant and pro-evangelical presidential candidate in modern history has chosen as his running mate a man whose wife is the daughter of immigrants and is not Christian. Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his vice presidential candidate…
We can’t let political violence be used to silence concerns about rising political violence
On the flight home from our family vacation on Saturday, my phone lit up with messages about the horrific and thankfully unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Donald Trump at his rally in rural Pennsylvania. In the wake of that awful event,…
The kids are not all right
A 20-year old tried to assassinate a presidential candidate this weekend. Now I know that, technically, we consider 20-year-olds adults. But I teach 20-year-olds. I know they’re still somewhere between childhood and adulthood, their brains not yet fully formed. But…
Don’t blame ‘the media’ for reporting your own violent language
Boston Globe reporter James Pindell stood in front of the press riser in the 91-degree heat as the gun smoke settled and Donald Trump rose up with blood running down his cheek, pumped his fist, and yelled, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”…
Trump needs to be stopped with ballots, not bullets
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is an attack on American democracy. Which is pathetically ironic because Trump himself remains an attack on American democracy. We must denounce the would-be assassin while reminding the nation that making Trump a victim…
Trimmed down GOP platform sounds a lot like a Trump campaign speech
As Democrats debate whether President Joe Biden should run for another term, Republican officials back Donald Trump and his agenda for the next four years, according to the party’s recently released platform, which is expected to be approved at the…