29 Apr, 2018
Tip was right
““All politics is local.” Did former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O’Neill say it first? We...
25 Apr, 2018
Can we unlock the golden door?
“Around 9 a.m., a helicopter began circling overhead. Moments later, as Jonathan Blitzer wrote recently in the New Yorker, a...
25 Apr, 2018
An Unjust Law Is No Law: Pot, Usurpation and Reparations
“In America, we are fortunate to have a “social compact” that protects the people from “government intelligence.” Rather than relying...
24 Apr, 2018
The Cautionary Tale of Donald J. Trump
“In the summer of 2016 I wrote a song titled “Not This Time,” about an unnamed demagogue seeking power in...
20 Apr, 2018
No really, how bad does it have to get?
James Comey was fired by Trump, of course, because he was looking into Trump’s role in conspiring with Putin to...
19 Apr, 2018
Playing war in Syria
“Donald Trump got “presidential” again and fired about $150 million worth of cruise missiles at Syria, accomplishing God knows what…”...
19 Apr, 2018
Teaching Peace in a Time of Hate
I teach at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta Georgia. In recent years we’ve made lots of news (in 2015...
16 Apr, 2018
“The Mob Boss Orders a Hit and a Pardon”
Well, it appears Syria and Russia were on the verge of defeating the USA backed “rebels” and the US Mob...
15 Apr, 2018
Which Nations Are the Happiest?and Why
“America’s oft-quoted Declaration of Independence, when discussing “unalienable rights,” focused on “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Although “happiness”...
15 Apr, 2018
Taxes, Death and Nuclear Weapons
“We live in a world where as Benjamin Franklin said in 1789, “Nothing can be said to be certain, except...
13 Apr, 2018
Dirty tricks vs. democracy
“Can Republicans survive without dirty tricks? Open question. Some historical and current examples cause pause as we consider this…” Tom...
11 Apr, 2018
Lynchings past and present
“When history is looked at in its complexity, it plays havoc with the present moment…” Robert C. Koehler Published in:...
11 Apr, 2018
The Syrian Quandary
“Donald Trump’s threat of another missile attack—or any attack—on Syria cannot improve the rebels’ position on the ground, affect use...
8 Apr, 2018
Crony corruption in Trumpworld
“Scott Pruitt flies first class international with his entourage to Paris for a couple of days—just to party—and then on...
6 Apr, 2018
A Dangerous Game of Chicken
“As the “tit-for-tat” trade fight between the US and China escalates, Donald Trump is likely to find that he doesn’t...