Shame of the South

No slum looks like a slum when it’s before a planning department.

We need Mugwumps. A lot of businesspeople like democracy, but are cool to Democracy, want low taxes, but they’re leery...

Find me one policy pursued by national Republicans that’s not also pursued by Mississippi Republicans.

iI delivering jobs and prosperity is worthless in the face of a race war, then maybe democracy isn’t a good...

The Republican Party is now the KKK party. The Republican Party is now devoted, heart and soul, to overturning the...

I was blind to my own good fortune.

The seminal political figure of 2020 isn’t running for office. It’s Stacey Abrams, a neighbor mine in Kirkwood. Kirkwood, east...

When black folks move toward Bloomberg, it’s pragmatically. It they move en masse, Bloomberg will sweep southern primaries on Super...

The idea that America is somehow different from other nations because of our Constitution, our equality, or our tolerance has...

if you can’t beat the cult leader through argument, what else is available? Democracy has many tools.