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…

America “must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.” President Dwight David Eisenhower, televised farewell address, Jan. 17, 1961. BY RICHARD C. GROSS Thousands of Ukrainians are dying as they rally to save their freedom from a…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “We the people are the rightful masters of the Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln The sitting president of a mighty nation founded on a body of laws, Donald J. Trump, agreed…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” Thomas Jefferson It started for me, as with millions of American kids, in first grade: Reading. It was the mid-1940s, and letters spelling “see Dick run…

BY RICHARD C. GROSS “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” George Santayana, 1922 Russia methodically is destroying a neighboring independent democratic country and is accused of committing mass atrocities, war crimes that include evidence of executions of hundreds of civilians. Yet American far-right radicals applaud Russian President…