Am I Wrong Not to Worry Any More about Trump's Possible Pardons?
Like a lot of other people, I've been watching while Donald Trump makes every move he can think of to protect himself from being held accountable for the offenses that (it becomes clearer by the day)...
View ArticleNo Profiles in Courage (My Latest Challenge to the Conservatives)
This piece ran last week in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06)**************************This time, I’d like to talk not about the Republican voters, whose support for this...
View ArticleWired for the Human Scale (Which Evils Ignite Our Outrage?)
This piece ran this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).****************We live in a big and complex world, but we are wired to respond to what’s visible on the human...
View ArticleProposing a Slogan for the Dems' National 'Blue Wave' 2018 Campaign
There have been complaints about the Democrats that they've got no strong coherent message for this year's election-- something that transcends individual races and fortifies a desire in the public to...
View ArticleWe Can’t Be Strong Until We Understand How We’ve Been Weak
This week's Supreme Court decisions reveal how important it is that Liberal America match its political opponents in the fierce determination to win it brings to the fraught political battle of these...
View ArticleThe Mueller Investigation and the Appointment of a New Justice: Does It Make...
There seems to be a lot of readiness among the Dems in Washington for the fight over filling the Supreme Court vacancy. I'm having trouble seeing this battle clearly. One part of the picture in...
View ArticleDealing with the Pain and the Despair
This piece will be appearing this week in newspapers in VA-06. Explicitly addressed to fellow liberals, it is also written keeping in mind that the areas served by the newspapers are peopled...
View ArticleHere's a Fight Worth Fighting (Re the Supreme Court Nomination Process Ahead)
The retirement of Justice Kennedy has everyone on the liberal side upset, up in arms, mobilizing, in a tizzy, ready to fight to prevent the Court from becoming the unbridled arm of the right-wing force...
View ArticleWhen Good People Support Bad Politics (My Latest Challenge to the Conservatives)
This piece has run in several newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************To the best of my knowledge, I am the only commentator of a liberal bent who regularly...
View ArticleMueller Needs Far More Vigorous Support
It may not be an exaggeration to say that the fate of American democracy depends upon the Mueller investigation. (There are plausible scenarios that would substantiate that assertion.)And it may not be...
View ArticleClues Today’s Republicans Somehow Ignore (My Latest Challenge to the...
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*************************It’s hard to figure whether today’s Republicans have lost their values, or their ability to...
View ArticleThis Is Not the Time to Fight Over Defining the Democratic Party
I'm planning on publishing this also sometime in the near future in newspapers in my rather red congressional district (VA-06). Aside from making a point to Democrats, this piece also seems to me a...
View ArticleTrump Gives Himself Away on Putin and Russian Meddling
Not that we didn't know that Trump would go to the Putin summit, despite how the indictments brought by Mueller on Friday underscored the inappropriateness of Trump going forward with this meeting...
View ArticleMessage All Dems Could Use, from Jersey Dem Congressional Candidate
In today's Washington Post, E.J. Dionne writes a column titled "Does the Blue Wave Start in Jersey?" In that column, he quotes the Democratic challenger for New Jersey's 7th congressional district, Tom...
View ArticleHow Every GOP Candidate Should Be Challenged (from Friedman's "Trump and...
At one level, Trump's performance ("shameful," "disgusting," "treasonous") with Putin yesterday on the Helsinki stage contained nothing he has not shown before.But at another level -- with the visible...
View ArticlePeople Who Are Different from ‘Us’-- On GOP Hypocrisy (My Latest Challenge to...
This piece is appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************How do we know that it was of major importance to Jesus how we treat people who are...
View ArticleWhy Mueller Probably Shouldn't, and Won't, Subpoena Trump
(The "probably" in the title is my acknowledgment that these issues are complex, and that -- although I've been playing close attention on an ongoing basis -- I recognize that, because of limitations...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s "Treason Trip" Exposed about the Right
All this time we’ve been waiting to see what might be uncovered about whether there was “collusion” between Donald Trump and Putin’s Russia during the 2016 campaign. And then came this trip to Europe...
View ArticleObstacles to the Sacred Space of Lovers
This is my weekly op/ed this week in newspapers in my congressional district (VA-06). (I decided to take a break from my usual challenges to the conservatives over their support of Trump and the...
View ArticleWhy Trump Should Be Blamed, Not Praised, for the High GDP Growth
Generally, voters give a President credit for an expanding economy. Much of the time, that's like the old Chinese Emperors being praised or blamed for the occurrence or non-occurrence of earthquakes,...
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