America's Role in International Order and, Now, Disorder
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional District, VA-06.***************************For the entire history of human civilization, the international system has been a...
View ArticleThe Profound Hypocrisy of the Republicans Depicted by Paul Krugman in Five...
Paul Krugman has hit the ball out of the park, as he sometimes does. As he is using the medium of the Tweet, his statement has a lapidary, gem-like quality. I'd been hatching in my mind a piece that...
View ArticleRepublicans Make Themselves Accessories to Trump's Crimes
Sometimes I wish I could see into the future. What's going to happen? In the battle between Trump and the rule of law in America, for example, which will prevail?But then, sometimes I really don't want...
View ArticleQuestion for Readers Here: Who Is Going to Win This Battle?
In America right now, two forces seem to be moving rapidly toward a collision. One might be called "the force of the rule of law." The other -- arrayed against it-- is "the force of Trumpian...
View ArticleTrying to Understand My Countrymen
This piece will be appearing this week in newspapers in my very red congressional District (VA-06).************************Sometimes I wish that, if America must be governed by a man like Donald Trump,...
View ArticleDemocracy on the Ropes?
This is my weekly op/ed for newspapers in my 2:1 Republican congressional District, VA-06.*****************************This is a dark time for democracy.At this point, Turkish democracy exists in name...
View ArticleTrump Is Showing He's Putin's Man: A Real-World Version of the Manchurian...
I plan to work up another version of this piece to serve as my op/ed message, delivered through the newspapers in this coming week, to the Trump-supporters in my 2:1 Republican Congressional District,...
View ArticleWhy Is Our Commander-in-Chief AWOL On Russia? (Message to Trump Supporters)
On Saturday, I posted here a piece titled Trump is Showing He's Putin's Man: A Real-World Version of "The Manchurian Candidate." That piece was written at a white heat, in the way the ideas...
View ArticleNeeded: A Pre-emptive Attack on the Abuse of the Pardon Power
A Legit Power Can Be AbusedPeople have spoken – too much, in my view – about how broad, how nearly unlimited, is the power to pardon that the Constitution grants the President.It’s true that, except...
View ArticleThe Rising Up of the American People
This is my weekly op/ed piece -- as always, written with a conservative readership in mind -- which will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district...
View ArticleRecruiting Tool: A Way to Motivate the Upset-but-Inactive to Take Action
It's great to see how this "Blue Wave" is gathering momentum, as each special election seems to bring good news, often turning districts from red to blue in dramatic fashion.But America is in so deep a...
View ArticleSteyer’s Right, Pelosi’s Wrong: Trump’s the Main Issue for 2018
Billionaire Tom Steyer, who has launched a campaign to get President Trump impeached, says that Democrats, in the upcoming elections, should focus on the Trump issue because it “is the most important...
View ArticleA More Compassionate View of the Xenophobes and Racists
Liberals tend to regard the neo-fascist nationalists as bad people. And it’s true that, with their tendency to xenophobia and racism, they do show serious defects.But there’s another way of looking at...
View ArticleTrump the Malignant Narcissist: Dangerous Like a Cornered Animal
Some are saying that Trump is newly “emboldened.” I think that misinterprets what is driving his recent “bold” moves. What Trump is, is deeply frightened.Donald Trump hates to lose. The prospect of...
View ArticleAmerica Must Address Its Problem with the Trump 37%
This piece is running this week in several newspapers in my very red congressional district, VA-06. For several years, through my weekly op/eds, I've been sending messages with a conservative...
View ArticleHope and Fear, and Our Inherent Uncertainty About the Future
Introduction: This piece will be appearing in the newspapers in my very red congressional District, VA-06. These pieces are always written with the conservatives in mind. I've been pounding them...
View ArticleQuestions for Republican Voters
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional District, VA-06*****************************I don’t know anyone who spends as much time trying to understand Republican/Trump...
View ArticleThe Irrelevance of Our Ambivalence about Jim Comey: Comey's Book and the...
We are coming to another Jim Comey moment: his book is being released -- and it is scathing in its portrayal of Trump and his presidency -- and Trump and the RNC and Fox News are mounting an assault of...
View Article# 1 Press the Battle: How Liberal America Might Best Combat the Force that...
Last year, in a series titled “A Better Human Story,” I laid out a framework for understanding – in purely secular terms – how central to the story of our species has been a dynamic that can reasonably...
View ArticleHow Will People Handle the Truth? A Challenge for Trump's 37%
This piece will be appearing in the newspapers of my very red congressional district, VA-06. It exemplifies the recent escalation of how challenging I'm making my messages to the conservatives in the...
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