Category: Opinion
The Value Of Living This Life
Navigating the balance of life in the middle of a pandemic and unprecedented uncertainty. By David Todd McCarty | Sunday, July 12, 2020 I came ... Read More
Why The Trump Show Won’t Get Picked Up
America is so easily distracted that it elected a television conman, but his reality-style Presidency won’t get picked up for a second season because America ... Read More
America’s Battle Fatigue
American doesn’t actually win wars anymore—not on foreign soil against enemy combatants, nor in the service of domestic social issues—we simply drift away out of ... Read More
The Resistance Needs A Better Brand
The very strength of the Democratic Party—a wonderfully diverse coalition of people and ideas—is precisely what makes it suck so badly at branding. By David ... Read More
America Burns As Protestors Attempt To Curb Rioting Police
With each new video, police departments across the nation continue to prove that they can no longer be trusted to protect the American people. By ... Read More
These Are Not The Facts You’re Looking For
A new era of disinformation, ushered in by a powerful conservative media universe, has threatened democracy in ways the Framers never could have anticipated. By ... Read More
Do Black Lives Matter—To The Democratic Party?
Will The Black Lives Matter movement finally be embraced by the Democratic Party establishment, or just co-opted momentarily as an expedient political weapon to defeat ... Read More
We Need Amy Kennedy Now
Letter To The Editor The first thing that struck me about Amy Kennedy is her ability to listen intently, not getting ahead of herself with ... Read More
I Can’t Breathe
https://vimeo.com/424921842 Produced by Hopping Frog Studios, LLC for The Standard. Read More
America Needs Stacey Abrams And We Need Her Right Now
America doesn’t need to heal, so much as it needs to grow the f*ck up. By David Todd McCarty | Monday, June 1, 2020 Anytime ... Read More