5 Jan, 2018
North Korea Diplomacy Needs Defending, Not Snarky Tweets
“As the U.S., the Korean Peninsula, and the world stare down the barrel of what would be a devastating war...
5 Jan, 2018
2 Jan, 2018
Culture war on
“If you watch Fox News, Fox and Friends, and that sort of thing, and if you listen to Rush and...
2 Jan, 2018
Truth-Telling in Immigration
“As we enter a new year, 800,000 Dreamers await news of their fate in this country. Thwarted by a president...
1 Jan, 2018
From Swamp to Cesspool
“There is something that has bothered me about Donald Trump’s dishonesty and refusal to face reality, and China has it...
17 Dec, 2017
Arf
“Men are dogs (sorry, dogs!). Trump refers to his ambitions with canine instincts, e.g., he wants to spend $1.5 trillion...
14 Dec, 2017
Peace on the far side of nuclear weapons
““. . . real security can only be shared . . .” I call it news in a cage: the...
13 Dec, 2017
Momentum for Talks with North Korea?
“Possibly, just possibly, a new momentum for direct US-North Korea discussions is developing. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some...
13 Dec, 2017
Stop Trump movement
“Since the #GagMeElection of 2016 we have heard a great deal about “resistance.” Nevertheless, we’ve seen relatively little of it...
10 Dec, 2017
Leave it on the table again?
““You can’t fight City Hall.” Well…turns out City Hall is a minor obstacle these days. Trump and his autocratic buds...
10 Dec, 2017
Brainwashed
“Everyone should watch Nick Kristof and his team’s riveting 26-minute documentary, on the New York Times website…” Winslow Myers Published...
8 Dec, 2017
The Calculated Destruction of America’s Government
“It is truly extraordinary: the still-new Trump administration keeps appointing people whose common priority is the destruction of the agency...
6 Dec, 2017
Rebuilding Jim Crow Nation
“Dred Scott lives! With the Supreme Court’s declaration that President Trump’s third version of a Muslim travel ban is now...
15 Nov, 2017
Trapped in ‘a man’s world’
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold . . .The “man’s world” I grew up is shattering into fragments of...
13 Nov, 2017
Stop the Wars: Congress vs. the President
“Who Makes War? As Donald Trump maintains a high-velocity assault on North Korea’s leader, its political system, and its weapons...
10 Nov, 2017
The Trump-Xi Meeting in Beijing, Very Briefly
“Donald Trump gave Xi Jinping endorsements; Xi gave him face. Trump heaped praise on Xi for being a strong leader;...