The Battle for America’s Sanity

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.” — Francis Bacon, Irish-English artist, 1909–1992 The federal government is striking back hard against former president Donald J. …

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of…

The Orbán Model: Far-Right Axis Under Construction BY RICHARD C. GROSS “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.” -- Philip K. Dick, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” 1968 The…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.” George Orwell, 1984 Republican right-wing extremists are putting together an agenda from hell to prepare for a GOP president in…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “A man may give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.” Mahatma Gandhi Recorded and live testimony before eight hearings of the House Jan.6 committee ripped open Donald Trump’s intensive, unyielding efforts to retain the…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell, 1984 The House Jan. 6 committee sharpened its knives probing into Trump at its latest hearing, warning him against contacting witnesses and straining to find solid evidence that he planned…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “Come not between the dragon and his wrath.” — William Shakespeare, King Lear What so many have realized, what so few have refused to recognize and what the like-minded have failed to criticize nearly cost us our country, our democracy, to an obsessed, unhinged man-child who…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “We were singing, bye-bye Miss American Pie Drove my Chevy to the levee But the levee was dry Them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye.” — Don McLean, 1971 Supreme Court conservatives, fresh from their unjust sniper killing of the legal right to abortion…