The government shutdown over president Trump's border wall is a crisis manufactured by one person: Donald Trump. Outside of his rabid base, literally no one wants the giant concrete wall he has been promising, including most of the GOP.  Unfortunately for the rest of the nation, ...read more

This weekend's Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando is such a multi-layered tragedy that it's difficult to know where to begin to pull it apart. On one hand it's being labeled a terrorist attack, largely because of the shooter's Muslim faith and his maybe too convenient embracing ...read more