I do not want to go home in a coffin or a body bag. I just want to go home to my family, and to finally – for the first time — hold my son.

HR1 and S1 are the Party's last chance to remain in the majority. If Republicans win in 2022, their legislative agenda is over.

There are four major actors in this drama (five counting Biden) and we're nearing the end of the tale.

Billionaire charity always comes with a price.

Do you really think more than 35 million Republican voters support the murder of public officials? Or is something else going on?

Immunity may be long lived, but there's bad news as well — the U.K. variant has reached the U.S.

Will the Capitol Assault be this generation's 9/11, at least in its lasting aftermath?

For many, the "consent of the governed" has been withdrawn. This is a problem, but maybe not the one you're thinking about.

I often think about the difference between life in our hunter-gatherer tribes and life after humans settled in place to farm.

My new favorite Christmas song

Hypocrisy steeped in irony, yet so common as to be entirely unremarkable

Are valid treatments caught in our political wars?

Will the Russian vaccine be hated? Will the Israeli vaccine be available?

We're out of road down which to kick this can.

Done right, vaccines end pandemics. Done wrong, pandemics end vaccines.

There's no neoliberal solution to this problem. We'll solve it the Sanders way or not at all.

Humans die when it gets too hot. Here's what "too hot" will look like in 2050.

Trading lives for livelihoods doesn't work.

How soon should the nation respond to its next real threat?

Who will seize this world-historical moment?