Might It Be Time for the House to Pass New Articles of Impeachment?
When the Senate Republicans chose Trump over the rule of law, I figured the impeachment card had been played, closing that avenue for protecting the nation. Maybe that’s how it is.But in the short time...
View ArticleHow Could Bernie Best Deal with This Vulnerability of His?
Preemptive PreambleLet me begin by saying that if Bernie Sanders would be the strongest candidate for the Democrats to put forward, I’d be for him, and that if he would be a weak candidate for the...
View ArticleHow Elizabeth Warren's Excellent Bloomberg-Bashing Strategy Opens the Path to...
I’ve been favoring and/or leaning toward Elizabeth Warren to be the nominee for about a year. And so I have been encouraged by her rise, followed by discouragement at her major decline late last year,...
View ArticleExcoriate the Republicans: "Look what your impeachment cop-out has unleashed...
It’s important to help the American people see the dangerousness of Trump’s conduct, but also to see how the Republicans in the Senate have disgraced themselves by exposing the nation to this ugly and...
View ArticleThe Democrats Need a Path that Is Not Political Suicide
The Democrats face a real challenge right now. They absolutely must defeat Trump in November, and there’s a danger — increasingly visible — that what’s emerging from the nominating process is that the...
View ArticleAnother Op/Ed Challenge to the Conservatives: The Psychology of Trumpian...
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******Many people are aware of the profound mystery at the center of the America in these times. My own...
View Article"Make America America Again": A Campaign Slogan for the Democrats This Year
Think of all the ways that the United States — under Trump’s presidency, and with the support of the Republicans,— has gone in directions that are the opposite of those that have long defined...
View ArticleBiden Isn’t My Preference, But Here’s Why I Think He’d Beat Trump
On the eve of Joe Biden’s expected victory in the South Carolina primary, I’m asking myself: How many Americans – given the specific choice between voting for Donald Trump or voting for Joe Biden or...
View ArticleWhy the "No Path to the Nomination" Idea Likely Makes No Sense This Year
Many commentators these days show an understandable eagerness for the field of Democratic candidates to get narrowed — and quickly. And so they express the hope that those candidates who have “no path...
View ArticleTo My Fellow Super-Tuesday Democratic Voters: Our Inescapable "Electability"...
Dear Fellow Democrats,I'd like to share with you my thoughts about our Primary Election that's now only two days off. The first thought is about how most of us Democrats have no responsible choice but...
View ArticleHow the Urgent Need to Defeat Trump Has Compelled Me to Change How I'll Vote...
This is the companion piece to the previous piece, “To My Fellow Super-Tuesday Democratic Voters: Our Inescapable ‘Electability Challenge,” in which I argued that those of us whose overriding priority...
View ArticleWhat I'd Like Elizabeth Warren to Do about Endorsement
Of all the candidates the Democrats fielded this year, I think Elizabeth Warren would have made the best President. But, for whatever reasons, her campaign did not muster the necessary strength. And...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Dub Trump that "Wrecking-Ball President": It Focuses...
Most all of what’s worst about having the powers of the presidency in Donald Trump’s hands has to do with the damage he is doing to the country, in countless ways. I believe I know what I’m talking...
View ArticleIf 2020 Were a Normal Election, A Woman Might Well Have Won the Nomination
The withdrawal yesterday of Elizabeth Warren from the race — leaving only two old white men in the running — led a number of women commentators and activists lamenting that America has not yet evolved...
View ArticleNot "Establishment," But "Mainstream": Not "Ideology," But "the Need to...
What’s happened in the swiftly changed dynamic of the presidential race is not fundamentally about the ruling elite --the so-called Establishment — of the Democratic Party, calling the shots for the...
View ArticleAt Last a Possible Good Turn in Israeli Politics
There’s some possibly good news coming out of Israel in the past few days. News that encourages me to hope. Hope—meaning that I care about what kind of spirit wields power in that nation, I care...
View ArticleAnother Op/Ed Challenge to the Trump-Supporters: "America's Wrong Turn"
Every week, I publish an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). Here is the one that’s running this week.*********************In a famous passage, the ancient Greeks...
View ArticleWhy Doesn't the Insurance Industry Trumpet the Perils of Climate Change?
We can assume that the insurance companies know the truth about climate change, because their business requires them to understand that properties they insure can fall victim to rising seas, that more...
View ArticleIn the Week Since Super-Tuesday, Joe Biden Seems to Have Learned Something...
Biden wasn’t my favorite candidate (that was Warren), but just a couple of days before my turn came to vote (March 3, in Virginia) I saw it was Joe we needed to nominate. Which made it especially...
View ArticleImages -- from the Pandemic -- of the Goodness in America and in Humanity
I’ve always had a tendency to focus more on addressing problems that need to be solved than on celebrating the beautiful things that manifest in our world. But I’ve become more that way over the past...
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