Most of the protests we’ve seen lately have involved the Black community, mostly due to the noticeable slayings of Black people at the hands of White police officers. It was almost a year ago as I was watching the news coverage from a hospital bed as communities all over the country—and even some across the…

Some of the reaction recently by the estate of Dr. Seuss, known in real life as Theodor Geisel, making the decision to stop publishing six of his books, has been extreme. Folks have been crying out “cancel culture” as some of the books that were published before they were even born have been taken off…

Is it my imagination, or is it hard to find a good politician in Texas? I wish that was the opening line of a barroom joke, but it seems to be anything but funny in a state that’s currently struggling to keep the lights on and equally having difficulty digging out from a freak snowstorm….

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been seen through many lenses. He’s been seen as a U.S. senator, a presidential candidate, a liberal, a socialist and—after President Joe Biden’s inauguration—someone who can turn a winter coat and repurposed mittens into a never-ending internet meme. For the last two weeks, the image of Sanders sitting at the inauguration…

More than a week after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol and stunned the nation. Spurred by the words of the sitting president of the United States, it has shown how truly feral we’ve become as a nation. It felt like we’d been hit all over again like we had been on Sept. 11, 2001, when…

I awoke this weekend to protests on Facebook from people angry about an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that suggested that the future first lady of the United States should drop the title of doctor from her name, declaring it a sexist attack on women everywhere. Joseph Epstein certainly cast a pall over an…

The Christmas smackdown has arrived, this time right here in Wisconsin, which means I’m going to get on my holiday soapbox and chuck frozen fruitcakes at stupidity. With 2020 causing cancellations galore due to the coronavirus, the state’s governor, Tony Evers, decided to put the kibosh on having a ginormous Christmas tree in the state…

I present to you a mysterious piece of metal, something called a monolith. It was discovered in the Utah desert in November, a strange spire that looked somewhat out of place and yet looked like it belonged at the same time. U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials were quick to say, “Oh, that’s not ours,”…

Tomorrow is going to be the big holiday where we all come together and give thanks for what we have. Normally, people gather at a person’s home, a restaurant or a church to feast on turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie and more. Not this year, though, health officials are warning. Don’t go to Grandma’s…