Yesterday we transitioned from last Tuesday night’s exhilaration in the wake of Democratic electoral victories to the dispiriting reality of the national Democratic party’s craven caving in the matter of the government shutdown. The shutdown was ended with a “deal”...
Did it matter that 7,000,000 people turned out for last month’s No Kings Day? If you ever wondered whether all of our recent protests, vigils, and rallies were having any effect, Tuesday’s election should remove all doubts. Tuesday was like a warm spring breeze in the...
The Democratic Party seems incapable of reading the moment. While individual Democrats like Chris Murphy, J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, Jasmine Crocket, Cory Booker, and AOC rise to the occasion, the national party leaders— Schumer, Jeffries, Biden, Obama, Clinton,...
The other day White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared the “Democrat party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.” Just a day earlier Donald Trump directed the pentagon to establish specialized National Guard units to quell...
On Thursday July 31, 2025 two members of my community were kidnapped by ICE immediately after attending their immigration hearings at the courthouse at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. Both were Episcopalian parishioners from Westchester, N.Y. churches. Both were...
