It’s not over, but we sure are letting the monsters, the Nazis, the grifters and thieves all win. We have been for a long time.
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To suggest that we pushed too hard or became too visible is the cruelest form of victim blaming.
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Remember the tough talk about Iran? The war we waged? The deaths … ours and theirs? Yeah. It’s always just talk with Trump.
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Sending love. Protect your peace. We have a long way to go to be able to put things right, if we ever do.
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A fighter at Sunday’s tacky display on the White House South Lawn said, ‘Michelle Obama is a man.’ He’d said it before.
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People will discuss Oregon Ducks football coach Dan Lanning’s comments from Saturday for some time. Here’s what he didn’t say.
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What does an image of a colorful butterfly and a human brain have to do with the 2012 Bourne movie? You’ll have to read to find out.
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Three years ago today, I came out as a transgender woman. The past year has been the hardest of the three.
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Published May 3, 2018
My desire to see “The Post” owed mostly to my long career in newspapers, but motivations are often complex, and that was true about my interest in this movie. A believer in the role that newspapers have as watchdog, I felt an extra pull to view Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham. Those characters, the editor and the publisher of The Washington Post at the time of the controversial public disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, have been well known to me for decades.