Reconsider LGBT Strategy
Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice-President, I write this letter as a supporter and advocate, not a critic or adversary. As someone who voted for you and who regularly calls on millions of American...
Unhinged Opponents
Trump’s Best Asset May Be His Unhinged Opponents “We have never in living memory seen an electorate as fired up and angry and engaged as they are right now, Ben Wikler, Washington director of the lef...
Left Uses Violence But Says Speech is Violence
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Anarchy takes many forms. There is street violence, like that at the University of California at Berkeley last Wednesday, a microcosm of the anti-Trump rioting all over the country...
Immigration Ban Was Clumsy, But Right About Radical Islam
I was a Muslim refugee once. I know what it’s like. I know what it’s like to gamble your entire future on a one-way ticket to a foreign land, what it’s like to fill in the forms, not knowing for s...
Prosecute the Rioters
From time to time over the years, the eminent historian Daniel Pipes has lamented that treason, not just as a crime but as a concept, appears defunct in the West. The question of bringing treason char...
What is the Democratic Party?
The popular progressive understanding of the Republican party and conservative movement is something like this: It is, at heart, a conspiracy of corporate oligarchs who use a collection of so-called s...
Free Speech and Rioting
In the United States of America, rioting to stop free speech is unlawful and reprehensible. Period. Full stop. It’s not “understandable.” It’s not excusable. There should be no tolerance and no sy...
Resistance From Within
The signs of popular dissent from President Trump’s opening volley of actions have been plain to see on the nation’s streets, at airports in the aftermath of his refugee and visa ban, and in the bl...
A Look at Neil Gorsuch
Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced his nomination for the Supreme Court vacancy left by the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February. Trump nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuc...
Who Are the Real Bible-Quoting Hypocrites?
One of the sharpest criticisms that comes against Bible-quoting, conservative Christians is that we are hypocrites, failing to live by the very book that we so zealously quote. Sadly, that critic...
This is No Master Plan
This week, the Trump administration botched the rollout of a relatively moderate immigration and refugee executive order that would have paused immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for a s...
A Second Supreme Court Pick?
WASHINGTON — For the White House, President Trump’s first nomination to the Supreme Court is partly about getting the chance to make a second. In tapping Judge Neil M. Gorsuch for an open seat, Mr. Tr...
