Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions.
We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down to the 1924 Immigration Act to keep non-Europeans out.
The 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has not so far provoked the kind of anguished debate that accompanied the 50th anniversary. The lack of controversy is fitting because there wasn’t much soul-searching at the time.
Yet another reason to be angry at President Trump: He is forcing me – and every other American who is not a racist – to defend the most left-wing members of Congress.
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn’t limited to Republicans.
The United States has been locked in an escalating confrontation with Iran ever since President Trump decided to pull out of the nuclear deal in 2018 and to impose unilateral sanctions in 2019.
The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.
The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.
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