History has shown us the first people you want to destroy in an authoritarian regime are the comedians and artists.

I know what happens when free speech collapses.

To set the world on fire is not to destroy it. It’s to light it up with the Truth.

It is nonsense to claim that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.

It’s the highest-rated show on late-night television. Colbert has been voice for anti-Trumpism.

Public media is necessary in a democracy, especially in a capitalist society that values commercially-driven messaging.

Able-bodied vets with PTSD, persons with non-visible disabilities, can work in the fields, according to the Secretary of Agriculture.

We had giants who fought the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans. Now look at us. Look at what we have.

This endorsement is personal and not in my capacity as an officer of any civic organizations, publisher and writer of any publications, director of a social service provider, elder of a Church.

It has no inherent benefit to society.

The Democratic Party’s internal struggle isn’t about socialism versus capitalism anymore. It’s about courage versus cowardice.

Standing behind him, in spirit if not on stage, were his warped “faith advisers”—Evangelical extremists who treat the Book of Revelation like a war manual.

As the Declaration of Faith reminds us, “We do not know when or how the final redemption of creation will be achieved. But we know that God will win.”

What the hell kind of country does that?

In 1946, “El Pendón Estrellado” became the official Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem.

Isn’t it heavy? Carrying that much rage around all day?

Our founding fathers insisted on displays of civilian rule rather than the pomp of kings and their soldiers.

We haven’t seen the same unfold in Chicago because of the power of already deep-rooted grassroots networks that mobilized.

It means your data, your life, could be filtered through an opaque algorithm, then passed to law enforcement without you ever knowing why.

It was a deeply personal—and deeply political—decision rooted in the lived reality that people like me are facing in this moment in America.