Larry Matthews

The sobering reality is that the government is now openly for sale.

Did they hear him denigrate people of color? Women? If they did, they agreed with him, a stunning turn of events in what I assumed was a more compassionate America.

His personal history, the values he grew up with, his magnetism, his intelligence are now in service to the people of Maryland. Fairness, equity, justice.

like most older Americans I saw the changes of the past sixty-odd years; the violence against Civil Rights marchers, the riots, and pain and suffering. And, like most Americans, I assumed we as a nation were done with that. Boy was I wrong.

He handed me the 3x5 card and said, “This is for you.” It was a pencil drawing of mountains topped by the Muslim quarter-moon and it was signed, “Muhammad All.” I probably had the same expression on my face as the kid in the famous Coke commercial who gets a jersey from Mean Joe Green.

It’s one thing to lobby to sell more cars to the government and it’s quite another to lobby to ruin human lives.

So, here we are midway through Black History Month and already it seems as though the nation has fallen into the black hole of ignorance about black Americans. It reminds me about the line that someone “has a face you forget while you’re looking at him.” America is forgetting about black people while it looks…

The Republican brand, as we are so often reminded these days, is tarnished to a point where even Republicans are worried. It is clear that most Americans reject the far right’s plans to tear down one hundred years of social progress by regressing into a semi-feudal system of a few haves telling millions of half-nots…

Quite by accident, I recently found myself listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Like many people, I see Limbaugh as a cigar smoking windbag whose world is limited to other wealthy far, far right nutbags whose connections to the world everyone else lives in were cut long ago. As it happened, on this day…