Michael Bryan 
A dead woman has more rights to her body than a live one. How can this be? Simple: The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Now we are seeing a whole shipload of right-wing insanity set sail, and here is just one example. In the normal world, everyone in our society has the sole … Read more
Mark Cardenas served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Late last month, Arizona Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly joined 10 Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The letter urged the agency to develop a regulatory framework to foster and support autonomous vehicles. In their letter, … Read more
Very often in Democratic politics in AZ you hear a common assumption: that the Hispanic vote is another liberal voting block that we just need to mobilize to win. That is a faulty and dangerous assumption. We also need to persuade many Hispanic voters to come back to the Democratic Party. Ruy Teixeira of the … Read more
I read the Dobbs decision, overturning Roe and Casey, suffused with dread and punctuated with periodic fits of anguish and disbelieving wrath at this unprecedented violation of American women’s human rights by our highest Court. It left me discouraged and angry and bewildered with the question of what’s next – which I addressed in a prior … Read more
As a prosecutor, one is taught to never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to in a courtroom. As that training runs quite deep, it is difficult to ask the following question, as I have no idea what the answer might be. We know what we do as a society when … Read more