5 Mar, 2020
The meaning of Super Tuesday
“A gush of corporate relief fills the airwaves as Super Tuesday becomes history. A progressive wave was not electorally visible...
17 Dec, 2019
Anger and forgiveness in our polity
“When Russ Feingold and John McCain reached agreement on legislation that helped reform the contamination of special interest money into...
17 Nov, 2018
The Red-Blue divide: Why beating ‘em is better than joining ‘em
“Unless I am in a particularly peaceful mood, I tend to scoff at the idea of building bridges between Democrats...
3 Nov, 2018
Why You Need to Vote (Democrat)
“While nonpartisan get-out-the-vote efforts are admirable and necessary for democracy as it is practiced in the United States, I am...
7 Sep, 2016
How Democrats and Republicans switched beliefs
“Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching...
31 Aug, 2016
None of the Above
“Western civilization has entered the long-predicted Secular Age when the power of religion over society gradually recedes. Europe started” James...