Sheila Kennedy | A jaundiced look at the world we live in.

September 17, 2026As we approach the most important midterm election of my lifetime–an election that really will determine whether we can rescue the country most of us thought we inhabited–it may be useful to summarize some of the consequences of what currently passes for an administration. Just some things to keep in mind as we

September 16, 2026Here in Red Indiana, the Secretary of State race will be “top of the ticket” in November, and Democrats have high hopes that Beau Bayh–son and grandson of former Indiana Senators–will be able to break the virtual lock that Republicans have had on statewide races. I recently attended a fundraiser for Bayh, and

September 15, 2026Give credit to Donald Trump for one (unintended) honesty: his own racism has made it acceptable for his supporters to express  bigotries that “politically correct” social norms had suppressed. MAGA and Trump have made it impossible to think–as I naively did when we elected Obama–that America was emerging from our original sin, the

September 14, 2026As the midterm elections near, Trump and the GOP are becoming more and more frantic, and engaging in a wide variety of tactics to suppress votes. A recent example: email and text messages urging recipients to check their registrations at links to phony sites. Voter integrity groups are trying to get the message

September 13, 2026The Guardian recently had a lengthy article focused on the sixty-year tenure of the Star Trek phenomenon, and current efforts by our MAGA overlords to cancel it for “wokeness.” Evidently, any celebration of diversity and human potential is woke. Or, as Peter Thiel reportedly told Maureen Dowd of the New York Times: “I like Star Wars