5 Aug, 2016
The numbers don’t lie—but Trump does
“According to a Fox News poll taken this week, voters believe Donald Trump would do better than Hillary Clinton on...
3 Aug, 2016
Reaching Beyond the Candidates
“What would it take to cause Hillary Clinton to distance herself from the newly launched bombing campaign in Libya? Or...
27 Jul, 2016
Beyond Drift
“It is hard to say which is more mesmerizing about our present cultural moment, the blustering neo-fascism of Donald Trump,...
26 Jul, 2016
Break-In: The Kremlin-Trump Connection
“Richard Nixon had “The Plumbers.” Donald Trump, it seems, has the Russians—either the FSB (Federal Security Service, formerly the KGB),...
22 Jul, 2016
Ready?
“So, let’s channel the cranky ghost of George Wallace as he justified his 1968 run for the presidency when he...
15 Jul, 2016
Surrealpolitik
“Donald Trump is for war and against war, for gun control and against gun control, pro-life and pro-choice, for politicians...
13 Jul, 2016
Are We in for Another Increase in Military Spending?
“At the present time, an increase in U.S. military spending seems as superfluous as a third leg. The United States,...
27 Jun, 2016
Is Brexit the end of the world?
“To judge from a New York Times front-page article that appeared two days after the British vote to withdraw from...
2 May, 2016
Changing the Conversation About “The Woman Card”
“The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity...
6 Apr, 2016
Politicians and Sexual Assault Awareness Month
“April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Far more than a mere chance to don a teal ribbon and say you...
15 Mar, 2016
The Trillion Dollar Question
“Isn’t it rather odd that America’s largest single public expenditure scheduled for the coming decades has received no attention in...
4 Mar, 2016
War, Peace, and Bernie Sanders
“We’ve had our first big vote, and I’m doing my best to dig Tulsi Gabbard’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders out...
3 Mar, 2016
Donald Trump—From One Tyrant to Another
“One thing I discovered long ago about tyrants: they love other tyrants. They’re a mutual admiration/suffering society. When one succeeds...
2 Mar, 2016
Trumped
“This has become the New Surrealpolitik, this Trump phenomenon. I understand how monomaniacal Trump can believe he could be president...
11 Feb, 2016
Looking for America
“In the New Hampshire primary, we have raised up an authentic firebrand in one party, and in the other a...