Challenging My Conservative Neighbors to Choose Justice Re the Electoral...
This piece is appearing as an op/ed this weekend in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06). I wrote a piece earlier titled “Still Passionately Pro-Democracy,” explaining why the...
View ArticleWhy the Trump Rape Trial Now Looks More IMPORTANT to Me Than It Did
I’ve always been sympathetic to E. Jean Carroll’s wanting to hold Trump accountable for what I don’t doubt that he did to her.But compared to Trump’s assault on American democracy throughout his...
View ArticleThe Folly of "Those Who Can't, Teach"--and an Exchange with a Republican on...
My weekly op/ed piece appearing this past weekend (in newspapers in my very red congressional district — VA-06) is mostly written to argue the importance of good teaching, and the need for our society...
View ArticleHow to Expose the Republican Evil in the Debt Ceiling Extortion
In 2011-2012, I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s 6th District. Then, as now, the Republicans were taking the whole American economy hostage to compel the Democrats to meet their...
View ArticleHere's How I Challenged Readers of Very Red (VA-06) about Republican...
This piece is appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*******************How the Debt Ceiling Crisis Reveals the Dynamics of this American CrisisThis crisis...
View Article“Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad” (Holding a Mirror to My...
This piece will be appearing as an op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06)**********************************As If PossessedI recognize that the developments in our complex world can be...
View ArticleHow I’d Like a President to be Speaking to the Nation (at this Dangerous...
The Wind at Our Back Could Be StrongerIn a previous piece – “’Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Drive Mad’ (Holding a Mirror to my GOP-Supporting Neighbors)” – argued that the Democrats have “the...
View ArticleWhy Biden's Low Poll Numbers Don't Matter. Why He'll Win in 2024 Anyway.
In today’s NORTHERN VIRGINIA DAILY, there appeared the piece I posted here earlier this week, as XXX.(This is an overwhelmingly Republican rural Virginia district, and my messages are often intended to...
View ArticleChris Christie, Giant Killer
To say that Chris Christie has never been my favorite politician would be an understatement. I’ve seen him for who he is, and who he is has often repulsed me.But apparently, Chris Christie is more than...
View ArticleHow I've Told My Conservative Neighbors that a Love of Justice Should Make...
This piece is appearing this weekend as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee in 2012. (Interestingly, the only...
View ArticleI'd Bet that -- Deal or No Deal -- Biden Wouldn't Have Let the U.S. Default
I’ve been reading some breathless reporting about how President Biden’s successful negotiation with Kevin McCarthy averted an economic catastrophe.I think that Biden did a masterful job that...
View ArticleHow AG Garland's Reluctance Epitomizes How the Liberal Side (for 30 years)...
I’ve been writing since 2004 about how a Destructive Force has been taking over the Republican Party, and about how the other component in the American crisis has been the failure of the...
View ArticleTrying to Understand this Putin-Prigozhin Showdown and Deal
Yesterday for a while, the whole fate of the Putin regime seemed up in the air. Was there going to be a Civil War? Would Putin get toppled, for bungling and losing a war (as has happened to Russian...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to the Court, Biden Should Wield More Stick
Postscript: I think I’ve changed my mind. What I think Biden should be doing about the Court — and what he may in fact be doing — is dealing with its in the way that’s best designed to get him...
View ArticleHarvard's Legacy Policies Benefit Mostly White People, But That's Not What...
I’m a member of the Harvard Class of 1967 and, with my having entered in 1963, “Fair Harvard” has been a part of my world therefore for sixty years. In the wake of the Supreme Court having struck down...
View ArticleWhen the Course of History Seems Governed by a Roll of the Dice
[This has lately run as an op/ed in newspapers in Virginia.]***********************My life’s work has focused on the large systemic forces that have played a major role in shaping the human world. (See...
View ArticleToday's Supreme Court is Territory Captured by the Lawless, Fascist Force
[This piece is appearing this week as a newspaper op/ed in my very Republican congressional district (VA-06) under the title “Today’s Supreme Court: An American Crisis.” **********************There are...
View ArticleMight MSNBC's "Excessive" Focus on Trump Be the Right Political Strategy?
Under the title “MSNBC’s primetime shows are failing us in a major way,” the Daily Kos contributor JunglelandDan complains that “the obsessive focus on Donald Trump now — two and a half years out of...
View ArticleIn Case One Wants an Additional Proof Israel's Judicial Overhaul is...
The right-wing/fascistic coalition now governing Israel has passed the first stage of its judicial overhaul. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to protest this move which is rightly...
View ArticleRick Wilson is Wrong: Republican Truth-Tellers (like Christie) Are Doing...
Rick Wilson — a major figure in the Lincoln Project — has been eloquent and insightful in condemnation of the Trump Party for a long time. Which is why I was surprised to discover that he’s declaring,...
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