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;...
24 Oct, 2017
Trump’s Benghazi
“Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he didn’t know. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and minority leader Chuck Schumer say they didn’t...
23 Oct, 2017
Democracy at Stake: Battle Lines over DACA and the Dream Act
“After ending President Obama’s DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in September, Donald Trump announced earlier this month that...
18 Oct, 2017
The Tragedy of American Foreign Policy
“So here is the state of US foreign policy today: Donald Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate...
17 Oct, 2017
Men and Sexual Assault in the Age of Trump
“Forget Harvey Weinstein. And Bill Cosby, and Bill O’Reilly, and Roger Ailes. But do remember the women. Remember all the...
15 Oct, 2017
The calm before the storm
“Every time Donald Trump blurts or tweets a shocker — “maybe it’s the calm before the storm,” for instance —...
9 Oct, 2017
Should Limiting North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions Be the Responsibility of the U.S. Government?
“In recent months, advances in the North Korean government’s nuclear weapons program have led to a sharp confrontation between the...
3 Oct, 2017
Catalonia to Cascadia
“Since last November many of us in many places in the US have heightened dreams of secession, of new nation-states,...
2 Oct, 2017
The Rise (and Fall?) of the Machines
“When our children, one girl, one boy, were in their pre-teens, my wife instituted “ladies’ day” as a special occasion...