Susan Collins and every fellow U.S. Senate Republican voted to “defund” the vaccine mandate on businesses, the military and the federal workforce. Many senators will not disclose their vaccine status, though I suspect that most are vaccinated. They don’t object to the vaccine; they object to it being mandated. Their reasoning goes something like this: […]

Right-wing radicals wan to ban the discussion of the history of racism in the United States, and in some cases offering bounties to citizens who report teachers defying such edicts. Are they denying that the Civil War — a conflict mainly centered on the merits or lack thereof of slavery being legal or outlawed — […]