The altruism and courage seen throughout the pandemic and this election have shown that we can achieve a lot when we come together. So, let’s continue to strive together. Be patient with each other. Instill values in our children that embrace diversity and tolerance for one another — welcome education and wisdom in others. And confront our fear that comes with doing the right thing.

Today, ideologues on every side rely on ignorance, often building an entire ideology on one fact. Or worse, one factoid.

The dulcet tones of Biden’s inaugural address already seem an artifact of a bygone era. Republicans will hammer him for the rest of his presidency for failing to deliver on his unifying message, but the fact is that Biden is governing as he promised – further to the left of his own record, further to the left of Barack Obama, and further to the left of any Democrat who made his career prior to the ascendency of the cultural left.

If racism is systemic, meaning it is embedded in white people, how is it possible to eliminate it? Do those on the receiving end of discrimination have a role to play? This is a question Democrats never address. If spending money is the key to limiting racism, more progress should have been made by now.

The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline had its day. Fortunately, it never advanced much beyond debate. It is dead – this time, we expect, for good.

Candace Jones, Jenna Johnson, Courtney Adams and Melanie Powell came up with their Hug in a Cup Initiative after they noticed that support for health care workers wasn’t as robust as it was in the spring.

Biden has reverted to an old and meaningless excuse when he says he doesn’t want to “impose” his faith on others. The question then becomes why have a faith at all, if he won’t apply what his church teaches as truth? How is Biden different from a person who is about to witness a murder but doesn’t try to stop it, or call the police, because he doesn’t want to impose his moral views about the value of life on a man about to commit an illegal and immoral act?

Can the GOP be saved otherwise? Truth is, the rest of us have no say. If the party is to be saved, the party will have to do it. And while we can’t know all that that will take, we do know it will take courage.

President Joe Biden has proved that, if nothing else, he has a pen and a phone. According to The Economist, he signed more executive orders in his first two days than President Donald Trump signed in nearly his first two months. And he was just getting started. Republicans have no standing to complain about Biden’s […]