It’s like a board game, the monarchy. Since we don’t pay for it, we can watch the game with amusement. I’m astonished, though, that it’s still going. Something to believe in, I suppose, for Brits, who live in hell these days under the Tories and no longer have the E.U…

I’m shocked. What a world we’re leaving to our kids. If a woman gets pregnant — or, in Ohio, a 10-year-old child gets raped — she’s told, in the bad states, that she’s a slave who has to carry the fetus to term whether she wants to or not. Where…

“Any state that forces a pregnant woman to have a child before viability is a slaveholding state engaging in sexual violence.” I read this today: “A pregnant woman in Texas told police that her unborn child counted as an additional passenger after being cited for driving alone in a high-occupancy (HOV) lane, offering up a potentially clever defense for a motorist navigating the legal landscape following the supreme court’s striking down…

Your body, your choice. Forcing an unwilling woman to continue a pregnancy before viability is not pro-life. It’s slavery. If you want to have a child, give birth. Your business. Nobody else’s. If you decide it’s best to abort, seldom an easy choice, have the abortion. Your business. Nobody else’s. …

When I think of the late Martin Amis, who died Friday in Florida at 73 of the same esophageal cancer that took the life of Christopher Hitchens in 2011 — the latter adored Amis for his wit, his sexual profligacy, and his verbal dexterity, and wrote at length about their…

North Dakota Legislature threatens to blur the line between church and state Opinion by Alan Davis March 26, 2023 at 10:22 AM The Wednesday, March 22 edition of The Fargo Forum reports that House Bill 1532 would allow public money to be spent on private school education. Two columnists, Tony…

The Bible — any bible — is like a ouija board or the I Ching or a roll of the dice. You can justify anything with a quote from the bible. I’m a fan of the Black writer John Edgar Wideman, now 80. I first met him in the late…

(a short story from Clouds Are the Mountains of the World) “Did you vote?” the mysterious Ava said. She had a bright orange sticker stuck to the sweater over her left nipple. I VOTED, it said. …