Columns & Opinions

Behaving like medieval peasants

Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people are behaving like medieval peasants: alternately denying the existence of the plague, blaming an assortment of imaginary villains, or running around seeking chimerical miracle cures.

Raising the debt: Hypocrisy has lost all meaning with Republicans

After awhile, hypocritical seems woefully inadequate in describing today’s Republican Party. And it’s reached the point where using that term for Republicans - whether in the state legislature or Congress - becomes irrelevant to politicians who aren’t bothered by it because one first has to have ethical and moral standards by which they would find that stinging criticism would force them to pause and reflect.

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