Dan Schaefer for Missouri

It is tragically fitting that Cheney, late in life, expressed alarm at Trump’s autocratic tendencies. Metaphorically speaking, Dick Cheney built Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, giving unchecked power to a megalomaniac who could not be controlled.

The conflict between the wealthy elite and the working class isn’t a polite debate. It’s a street fight for the American dream we once cherished. It’s time we started acting like it.

Texas is in a standoff. Greg Abbott wants to redraw the maps. Democrats fled the state. No quorum, no gerrymander. It's Texas Hold ’em—with democracy on the run.

One has to stand in awe at the mental distance traveled over the decades; a voyage that began with Reagan calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire,” and ended with American conservatives crawling on their knees in Red Square.

Josh Hawley’s theology of governance isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. It replaces pluralism with dogma, justice with hierarchy, and democracy with dominion. His vision may not wear jackboots, but it marches in the same direction: toward a society where dissent is sin, where rights are contingent on obedience, and where government is no longer of the people—but of the chosen.

When some lawmakers stop winning public support, they stop trying to earn it. Instead, they use their power to force their views on the rest of us.

We cling to an 18th-century structure and hope that somehow it will withstand the pressures of a 21st-century society. Clearly, our Constitution has hit a breaking point.

In the United States of Anxiety, the authoritarians win by paralyzing us with anxiety. Don't let them!

With a massive prison infrastructure and an army of political goons at his disposal, Trump will shift his focus toward new targets: Americans who refuse to get in line with his goals.

The white men in the cabal of faux Christianity are not disciples of Jesus. They have taken the language of Christianity and twisted it beyond recognition. In their hands, religion is no longer about compassion and grace; it’s about power and control.