Inflation is the crisis of the moment, though a pandemic that’s killing more than 1,200 Americans each week certainly can’t be ignored.
We rely on fewer and fewer of our fellow Americans to bear the burdens of war.
As a Kansas school district pulls 29 books from circulation in its library it seems that too many in this country - spurred on by Republican ideologues - are trying to make ignorance a top priority or, at a minimum, kowtow to pressure from right-wing extremists.
Populism was the big winner in the Virginia election this week, after Terry McCauliffe ran on his past as a Bill Clinton Democrat and Glen Youngkin ran as a rightwing populist.
If ignorance is bliss, then Republican lawmakers and their conspiracy-minded constituents could be found frolicking through the statehouse corridors and looking for rabbit holes they could gleefully dive into.
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