Until 2016 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was a book of fiction. We woke up in November, 2016 and found ourselves in the thick of the book’s madness with the Queen of Hearts/Trump screaming, “Off with their heads.”

We recognized the similarity between Trump and Lewis Carroll’s Queen who is a “blind fury,” a foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, irrational monarch; madness came to dwell in the White House. The Republicans supported, aided and abetted it.

For four years we have been in the grips of daily assaults on our sanity by the Queen of Hearts/Donald Trump. She/he has upped the nasty game to provoke and invoke the demons of xenophobia, of racism, of shaming, of mocking and of mouth-fouled misogyny. read more

Every morning, for the last few months, I would open my door to see that the Biden-Harris lawn sign was intact.  Signs have been destroyed in my town and all over our country; each night I would leave the lights on to protect the sign. Each morning I was happy to see it. We bonded in protection.

Millions of us took part in supporting the democratic candidates determined to protect Democracy in America. We wanted to do everything in our power to bring an end to the nightmare of a corrupt presidency. read more

Four years ago we voted hoping that we were making history in electing the first female president. We thought that we were on the road to pull the Founders’ promise of equality into the wide-open 21^st century. Instead, we woke up to find out that the man in the White House was a president determined to hack away the American soul, uproot equality and dismantle civil rights. For four years we have written scores of articles pointing out the disastrous impact of this presidency of dizzying destruction of iconic institutions that have shaped American democracy. We were shocked at our faith in a linear trajectory of democracy, how we would keep struggling to increase inclusions and civil rights. We discovered the fragility of the very tenets of democracy. read more