Alexander Heffner

The country was ready to see him finally held to account. Democrats failed to do that.

New York’s vaccine regimen has been an utter disaster. I hope the president and the people in the West Wing are taking note.

The new president has to come out of the gates fighting—against the authoritarians, and for the American people. It’s the only way to defy the odds in 2022.

The governor is neither listening to reality nor getting his priorities straight.

What Biden could learn from the failed campaigns of Mitt Romney and John McCain is that a message of decency that isn’t purposeful fails to resonate with the American people.

Most Americans realize this “weird shit,” as President Bush remarked about Trump’s inaugural, is no longer fleeting bizarreness. It is the making of an un-American America.

The question is what Joe Biden and the Democrats are doing to expose and stop it while there's still time.

Public health and the survival of our democracy are not supposed to be partisan issues. But Trump is treating them as partisan issues, and Americans are dying in the process.

Of course we look to Lincoln. But to pursue a deeper racial equality, we must turn also to the courageous senator from Massachusetts.

In 2016, all that free air time, and not calling a lie a lie, tilted the scales. Are we looking at a repeat performance?