October 10, 2025 “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” With that line, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt staked out a clear position: he opposes sending National Guard units across state lines into places where the governor hasn’t asked for them. Stitt, a Republican who currently chairs the bipartisan National Governors Association, broke with many in his party this week as GOP-led states coordinate with the Trump administration on deployments to Democratic-run cities.

With millions of Americans believing that intentional cruelty is something to be celebrated, the times can make us doubt ourselves. Is there something wrong with us? No. We are the normal people who l...

Countries and states run by right wing movements tend to be poorer in health, quality of life, safety, security, education and wealth, and many have weak or even moribund economies. Why is it that right wing movements seem peculiarly unable to govern, uniquely unqualified to solve the very problems that their own populations are crying […]

… then your chances of defeating it drop substantially. A quote attributed to Stephen King on Bluesky reads: “Republicans: When are you going to stop supporting Trump and start supporting America?” Yo...

(Or, the System is bearing up, once cool heads figure things out) The orderly legislative and executive behavior of old, constrained by familiar, conventional decency and norms, has long been easily a...