Sohn: We’re gambling badly with COVID-19, our kids and our schools
How many more sick people and deaths must we see before we get it?

How many more sick people and deaths must we see before we get it?

It took some time - maybe too much time - but Joe Biden finally put forward an energy and climate plan that has some bite, both for the earth and for rebuilding the U.S. economy.

It does seem - judging from Tennessee's primary election on Thursday - that voters are tired of the status quo.

Put 500 or so "law and order" Republicans in a Chattanooga Convention Center room in the middle of a pandemic, along with a sheriff who shares the general GOP disdain for anything common sense like the county's currently mandated social distancing and mask mandate, and ask yourselves what could possibly go right.
It grows tiresome to continue chronicling the bluster and misdirection of Donald Trump - especially at a time when our country so needs a real leader. But here we are - still without a real leader. Instead we have one who doesn't even know what he doesn't know.

This week begins bleakly for the nearly 30 million workers set to lose $600 in enhanced weekly unemployment benefits.

The Lincoln Project, lately dubbed the revenge of the Never Trumpers, is not just targeting the worst president in our history. It's also targeting his enablers - the GOP'rs who have no backbone or conscience.

Sorry, Southern governors. It appears you've made bad choices.

Over the years there's been a lot of talk about leveling the playing field for disadvantaged students in Hamilton County whose families don't have enough money to pay for an internet service that can help their youngsters learn and do their homework with school-provided tablets.

While COVID-19 marches over us like William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched earth march to the sea, most of the South's Republican governors - especially Tennessee's Bill Lee - dither.
