What Bernie Should Do Now to Best Serve America
The coronavirus crisis understandably dominates people’s minds these days. But in terms of the long-term health of the nation, the most important crisis facing the United States involves whether Donald...
View ArticleTrump, the Coronavirus Crisis, and the 2020 Election
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******************************Not so long ago, as it first became evident that the coronavirus was going to...
View ArticleHere's a Biden Ad I'd Run in the Fall
Maybe you’ve seen the video: Lindsey Graham, back in 2015, speaking in really powerful terms about what a great guy Joe Biden is. Graham gets emotional, talking to a TV interviewer calling Biden "as...
View ArticlePandemic and Climate Change: Two of a Kind
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).******************There are some important similarities between our crisis over the pandemic and our crisis over...
View ArticleWhat this Coronavirus Crisis Has Shown Us About Trump as President (An Op/Ed...
The poll finding from earlier this week — that some 60% of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of the pandemic — was nearly enough to drive me to despair about democracy. (60% means many more people...
View ArticleJerry Falwell Jr.: More Like the Power-Seeking Romans than the Christians
My work appears regularly in the Lynchburg, Virginia, newspaper, the News & Advance. I haven’t decided yet whether I will be using this piece as one of my offerings for that audience. But I’m...
View ArticleSomething's Wrong with Bernie Sanders
I voted for Bernie in the 2016 Virginia Primary. Then, by early May of that year, it was clear that Hillary had won the Democratic nomination. I expected that Bernie would pivot from that contest to do...
View ArticleDeath Among the Electorates -- Blue and Red
It is a story as old as civilization: cities are the places where epidemics can emerge most powerfully. Many people in close contact enable contagions to spread readily.(From an article in the journal...
View ArticleDeath Among the Electorates -- Blue and Red
It is a story as old as civilization: cities are the places where epidemics can emerge most powerfully. Many people in close contact enable contagions to spread readily.(From an article in the journal...
View ArticleIntegrity vs. Brokenness in the American Electorate
This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed this weekend in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*****************************Integrity and Brokenness It was an unhappy experience I had...
View ArticleBiden Should Be Holding Daily Briefings, the Dem Governors Should Visibly...
How can this not be an important opportunity for Biden: He wants to persuade Americans to vote for him over Trump; Trump is providing terrible leadership at a moment of crisis, costing American lives;...
View ArticleI Can Hardly Bear to See Something So Ugly So Powerful
The grotesque story from yesterday regarding the Wisconsin Primary election is but the latest illustration of the extraordinarily destructive thing the Republican Party has become in our times.The...
View ArticleBiden Should Step Forward on the IG Issue: "If I'm Elected President..."
Doubtless, the immediate public statement from presumptive-Democratic-nominee-for-President, Joe Biden, must be a well-crafted acknowledgment of Bernie Sanders’ official withdrawal from the race, with...
View ArticleWhat Frightens Me Most (It's Not the Pandemic): Another Op/Ed Challenge to My...
This piece appeared last week as newspaper op/ed in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I live.***********************It’s a frightening time, what with this pandemic sweeping through...
View ArticleOp/Ed Inviting Trumpers to Take "A Look into the Magic Mirror"
This piece will be appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012) — VA-06.**************A Look Into the...
View ArticleWhy Doesn't Trump Do What's Both Best for the Nation and Politically...
I get it that all that Trump cares about is himself, about maintaining his hold on power. What I don’t understand is why Trump persists in failing to do the obvious: i.e. doing what is both the right...
View ArticleThose Coronavirus Maps Would Tell Us More If They Were Color-Coded on a Per...
Every night, on MSNBC, I see color-coded maps in which the states are darker or lighter depending on whether they have more or fewer identified cases of the virus. New York is darkest. California a a...
View ArticleShouldn't Biden (and His Veep?) Be on the Attack
Joe Biden is challenging an incumbent President who is behaving abominably — by any standard — in a crisis of historic proportions. Shouldn’t he be aggressively making the case against that President?...
View ArticleWhat the Pandemic Reveals about Life-on-Earth
This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed in my red congressional district (VA-06).************************The coronavirus pandemic provides a glimpse into some basic realities regarding the...
View ArticleUnrequited Hate (Another Op/Ed Message to the Conservatives)
This piece is appearing as my weekly newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district — in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012 — VA-06.)*************************My heart aches...
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