VOICES

THE DOCTOR IS IN - President Joe Biden, it might be argued, was elected for one reason and one reason only: his name was NOT Donald Trump. 

HE VIEW FROM HERE - At the conclusion of the Tuesday, June 20, 2022 January 6^th Committee’s presentation, Co-chairperson Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to testify live before the cameras. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is shameful and unconscionable that this country has allowed gun violence to become the leading cause of death among children in the United States – but that is the reality.

GUN CONTROL - Ready, aim, fire: "I believe in Jesus, guns and babies." So declares Kandiss Taylor, GOP candidate for governor of Georgia, in a campaign ad.

RUSSIAN WAR - The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days.

LABOR WATCH - America is suffering from a worker shortage, but a more persistent and perhaps even urgent problem is the profound lack of skills among younger Americans.

GUEST COMMENTARY - “The threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family…”

HIGHER WAGES - Led by the Poor People's Campaign, advocacy groups and low-income individuals gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to demand that policymakers "fight poverty, not the poor."

THE VIEW FROM HERE - After Ben Franklin answered the question what form of government the Constitutional Convention had created, the questioner did not ask, “Why a republic?” 

GUEST COMMENTARY - It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented.

GUEST COMMENTARY - "Everybody plays the fool" The Main Ingredient, 1972 

SCOTUS WATCH - We are hurtling towards a world where a group of conservative mostly white men will likely trample the rights of "post-born" women to control their reproduction in the name of saving the "pre-born."