.Columns & Editorials

Right-wing reactionaries are still fighting a lost cause America needs an opposition party. Ideas must be tested, debated and deliberated. We need an opposition like the Grand Old Party of Everett Dirksen, William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater,...

Loving nature or profiting from it It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. Humans prepare for—and, of course, wage—war with an overwhelming percentage of their resources (to the benefit of the profiteers), but they plead poverty when it...

Transcending the morality police I have been haunted by a phrase: “morality police.” The news has been global. A 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested as she was leaving a subway station in Tehran on Sept. 13 by an Iranian police...

The choice is either American values or Christian beliefs Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that America should be declared a Christian country, even though they also understand such a declaration would be unconstitutional. Christian nationalists do not believe...

The struggle to save democracy is proving even more difficult in Europe than here in the U.S. Virtually every European country is bedeviled by rising conflict between traditional political parties on one side and far-right, sometimes neo-fascist...

As Election Day 2022 approaches, as usual, it’s never a dull moment in Richmond politics. Mayor Tom Butt is termed out, and the city is electing council members representing the three remaining newly districted seats, the result...

Ah, the children! They belong to us, sayeth the Department of Defense. At least some of them do. It’s a little more complicated than it used to be, thanks to one of the changes that occurred back in 1973,...