How Did the Republican Party Come to This?
This piece, which is a follow-up to a previous piece (“How Did America Come to This?”), is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). In that first piece, I...
View ArticleThe Dark Spiritual Kinship Between Putin and Today’s Republican Party
I’m contemplating running this piece soon as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).********************One of Aesop’s great fables is the story of the contest between the...
View ArticleDon't Forget Trump's Many Republican Accomplices!
One of the great pleasures of this dark time has been meeting— in their writings, and their appearances on MSNBC — so many excellent commentators on the political and legal developments regarding the...
View ArticleHow Corrupt Will this Supreme Court Prove to Be? And What Can Be Done If the...
We’ve had liberal Supreme Courts and conservative Supreme Courts. My fear is that the Court we have now will be unlike anything we’ve ever had: a Court that crosses the line into illegitimacy.It’s bad...
View ArticleThe Linkage that Might Resolve the Crisis with Russia
(I apologize for the roughness of the writing. I figured that with the crisis in Ukraine being as urgent as it is, and with Biden’s meeting with Putin, if it happens, presumably not far into the...
View ArticleBy Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them: The Saga of the Big Lie
This piece has been published as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee in 2012 (VA-06). ****************** Jesus said, “By...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Get the Political Boost He Deserves for His Handling of the...
Biden has dealt with the Russian move against Ukraine, these past months, in a masterful fashion. It has been a very long time since any President of the United States has performed so impressively in...
View ArticleThe Hard-won Wisdom of the Cold War
When civilization found itself, after World War II, in possession of nuclear weapons while still divided into nation-states that had seriously conflicting interests, it generated shock and...
View ArticleHow the 1/6 Committee Could USE the Ukraine Crisis, and Not Just Be Upstaged...
I’ve been looking forward — with somewhat high hopes — to the 1/6 Committee making its presentation to the nation. Their presentation seems to me the best tool available for awakening the American...
View ArticleIsn't There an Obvious Solution to the MIGs-to-Ukraine Problem?
Maybe I’m missing something. But if so, I don’t know what it is. And for one who does well on problems like how to get the missionary, the fox, and the goose across the river, the problem of getting...
View ArticleWhy I'm Betting that China Will Not Help Putin
Here’s what the Chinese are declaring:During a nearly two-hour-long videoconference, Mr. Xi sought to present China as a peacemaker. “The Ukraine crisis is something we don’t want to see,” he told Mr....
View ArticleAttacking Judge Jackson Is Not Legit Payback for the Tough Treatment of the...
I hear that some Republicans had a lot of energy yesterday for complaining about the tough treatment that their nominees got from Democrats while Trump was President. It’s presented as something that...
View ArticleIn the Ukraine Crisis, Civilization's Problem and the Solution are Both on...
The Problem and the Solution Are Both on Display“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.In this Ukraine-Putin crisis, we can see both the ugly...
View ArticleWhy I Think Biden's Putin-out-of-Power Remark Was a Totally and Carefully...
With my DVR, I could watch Biden make his famous comment — that Putin “cannot remain in power” — again and again. I’d heard that Biden’s parting shot was not in the script, and that it had suddenly...
View ArticlePropaganda and the Age of Unreason (How the Republican Base Was Led into...
This piece is running in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I ran as the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, under the slogan, “Truth. For a change.”*************The...
View ArticleMistaking Good People and Bad People (On the Weird Moral Judgments of the...
This piece has appeared as a newspaper op/ed in the very red congressional district in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.***********************In a previous piece, I puzzled over...
View ArticleThe Scary Thing Those Four Republicans Revealed
This piece is running as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.***************Much has been said about the conduct of...
View ArticleThe Way Biden’s Oath of Office Requires Him to Change
I have some reason to hope that this piece will find its way to President Biden’s inner circle, where it might do some good.****************As the midterm elections now loom, a central question is:...
View ArticleThe 1/6 Committee Needs to Make Americans Care about the Constitution: Here's...
A lot rides on the presentation the 1/6 Committee will be making to the American people in June. The futures markets are saying that the American electorate is on track to hand control of Congress to a...
View ArticleHow the Democrats Can Turn the Failure of BBB into a Major Weapon for the...
The conventional wisdom is that the Democrats will pay a price at the polls for the prolonged, dramatic, and frustrating failure to pass Build Back Better.It seems that indeed that’s how things are...
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