8 Sep, 2016
War vs. Democracy
“The paradox of democracy is that it depends on the integrity of those who have the most to lose if...
30 Aug, 2016
What’s Really Behind the Election
“You don’t have to be a poet to breathe new possibilities into an old, familiar metaphor. Recently, for example, author...
27 Aug, 2016
Races about race
“His latest—telling African Americans that they are doing lousy so “what the hell have you got to lose?” is his...
17 Aug, 2016
How Trump Deals
“The revelation from a New York Times investigation that Donald Trump’s chief campaign adviser, Paul Manafort, was on the take...
11 Aug, 2016
The Nuclear Breakfast Menu
“Donald Trump is a reckless fool. But the U.S. defense establishment is M.A.D. And herein lies one of the darker...
6 Aug, 2016
Trump Wrong on Iran Deal
“Donald Trump keeps criticizing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iran Deal); he couldn’t be more wrong, it has...
5 Aug, 2016
What’s Best for Children?
“The policy of nuclear deterrence is a raging failure masked as a roaring success. It is a failure because if...
5 Aug, 2016
Our Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
“While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens...
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,...