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Thanks to cable TV, what was once a Sunday morning ritual for political junkies, has turned into a steady stream of insider information,...

America is at the precipice of democratic collapse with Republicans steadily pushing us toward the edge. As a clinical social worker, I...

It’s more complicated than you think! Working with women (and girls) for almost three decades, I’ve been struck by how many feel...

This article was updated on March 16, 2023. After the attacks on 9/11, I provided Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) services for...

Ironically, it was exactly 3 years ago when a 35-year-old yearbook photo surfaced of (then) Governor Ralph Northam in blackface. To make...

No matter how logical your argument, how many facts you present, how emotional your pleas, or how often you repeat yourself, you can’t...

Listening to Simone Biles at Tuesday’s press conference, I was impressed by how comfortable she appeared with her decision. Let’s be...

Published December 2019 Some readers may remember Congresswoman Connie Morella. I grew up in her district. I used to quip she was a...

The comment by Senator Tim Scott and other Republicans that, “America is not a racist country,” is like saying humans beings aren’t...

Written May 2021 Senator Diane Feinstein received a lot of criticism yesterday for calling the hypothetical retirement of Supreme Court...

Take it from someone who worked on Capitol Hill: DC Statehood was always one of those causes every Democrat in congress would get behind...

I joined the Army late in life, at the age of 42. In announcing this decision, the first question I’d get was, “Why?” While I feared my...

de•es•ca•late [de-es-kuh-leyt] verb (with or without object), to decrease in intensity, magnitude, etc. As a Social Work Officer at Fort...

Published April 28, 2020 I’m the last person in the world who believes in conspiracy theories. So if anyone had told me what I read in...

Photo credit: SplinterNews.com Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all? – Brothers Grimm A boy comes running home...

It truly pains me to watch you everyday make self-defeating decisions, knowing how avoidable they are. What if I told you that you don’t...

Photo: BuzzfeedNews.com, August 19, 2017 Hear me out. Please. If there’s one thing Americans can agree on it’s how divided we are....

I started writing this article back in July, 2019, right after Donald Trump “approved military strikes on Iran, then pulled back…” ...

You’ve just left a meeting or an evening out with friends. As you’re walking away, you feel a rush of anxiety. Then it shows up: that...

In our media-driven culture of 24-hour news and rapidly breaking headlines, some say House Democrats are running out of time to make the...