It's become painfully clear that Matthews's best days are behind him. It's up to the executives at MSNBC to end that pain.

Almost like a man with a valuable hostage, Donald Trump paraded Dr Fauci in front of the cameras in the White House press briefing room. And like the good soldier that he's been for every president--Democrat or Republican--for going on nearly 40 years now, Dr Fauci told the assembled reporters what Trump wanted him to say.

The New York Post is reporting that, in his forthcoming memoir about 9/11, Republican former New York governor George Pataki reveals that Giuliani approached him, asking Pataki to cancel the then-upcoming mayoral election, so Giuliani could remain in office.

These changes and others increasingly give Virginia the face of a "blue state," which would have been nearly unthinkable even five to 10 years ago.

Rather than obsess over absurd conspiracy theories, Americans should be proud of a federal workforce which shows up every day to perform cutting-edge research, investigate accidents, care for our national parks, and administer any number of federal programs which make a positive difference for millions of your fellow American citizens.

Essentially, you have an 80s-style televangelist a la Jim and Tammy Bakker, who has direct access to the president of the United States on the basis of apparently little more than she's an attractive blonde who happens to have a religious credential.

Protesters worry that the upcoming nationwide citizenship registry, for which everyone will be required to provide documentary evidence of citizenship, will be used to deprive Indian Muslims citizenship under the new law, leaving them stateless.

Instead of calcifying towards the most conservative positions, our culture has nearly inexorably bent toward inclusivity and respect.

Thanks to House Democrats, particularly Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee and legislation she's been shepherding this year, the nation has finally begun to have a long-past-due conversation on its history of chattel slavery--particularly how to make that history right for the descendants of slavery through reparations.

Mister Rogers, Big Bird, and all of Big Bird's friends pointed us toward compassion. We are the ones who chose to turn away to a path of cruelty and divisiveness instead, as embodied by Donald Trump.