Articles filed under Commentary
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The next two years are about democracy itselfJan 06, 2019 12:00 am - "This is what democracy looks like." It's the chant heard again and again at the women's marches the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated and echoed later in mobilizat...
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Evangelicals falsely believe they have found a champion in TrumpJan 06, 2019 12:00 am - By all indications, the reluctant support by white evangelicals for Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in 2016 has solidified into something like devotion. In his ana...
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The Democrats' magic numberJan 04, 2019 12:00 am - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts As the new year turns and Democrats focus on candidates to oppose President Donald Trump in 2020, there's one number they should k...
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What a changing climate means for governmentJan 04, 2019 12:00 am - Looking back at 2018's weather-related news, it seems clear that this was the year climate change became unavoidable. I don't mean that the fires in California, coastal ...
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When Democrats embraced the 'southern border fencing strategy'Jan 03, 2019 12:00 am - In 2006, Congress passed the Secure Fence Act, which mandated the construction of multilayer pedestrian fencing along about 600 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It passe...
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In Illinois, a sign of intelligent life in the Democratic PartyJan 03, 2019 12:00 am - If Republicans have a lick of sense, they are alarmed by a recent sign of intelligent life in the other party. The sign is the election by Democrats in the House of Repr...
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The worst enemy of black peopleJan 02, 2019 12:00 am - Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and human rights activist. Born in 1925, he met his death at the hands of an assassin in 1965. Malcolm X was a courageous advocate for bl...
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Trump's wall is a symbol of ruinJan 02, 2019 12:00 am - Republicans used to shut down the federal government with the intention (generally) of curbing public spending. Donald Trump's GOP, in contrast, shuts down the federal g...
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The roots of the new nationalismJan 01, 2019 12:00 am - In affluent neighborhoods around Washington, New York and Los Angeles - and, for that matter, Paris, London and Berlin - it's common to denounce nationalism, to disdain ...
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Trump's reckoning is well under wayJan 01, 2019 12:00 am - For the new year, critics of President Donald Trump should resolve not to be intimidated by the potential wrath of his vaunted political base. The only one who should co...