Biden at one
In its first year in office, the Biden administration has done a reasonably good job of reversing the idiocies of its predecessor....
Want to understand Manchin and Sinema?
If you want the whole answer, you need to look at the single biggest factor affecting almost all national politicians I’ve dealt with: Big egos.
Why the voting rights struggle is a tipping point for American democracy
E.J. Jenkins vividly recalls the day his mom worked a voter registration drive at a grocery store in Gary, Indiana, and followed...
Two sides, same coin: Suppressing votes, cutting rich people’s taxes
America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have...
Save our endangered cartoonists
Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view: Kartoonus Amerikanas.
These are the newspaper...
Want true, wrenching, life-altering ‘grievances?’ Don’t look to right-wing base complaints
What social, ethnic, class or work group doesn’t have far more cause to feel disrespected, mistreated or exploited than Trump whiners?
Johnson does Downing Street: Booze, lies and playacting
Johnson is part of a privileged cozy class (Eton to Oxbridge to Whitehall) that feels themselves exempt from moral duties, social obligations and legal restrictions.
The end of dissent
I am a foreign agent.
Because my program at the Institute for Policy Studies receives some funding from a...
After a year of Biden, why do we still have Trump’s foreign policy?
President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would...
Corporate seditionists are no better than the seditionists who attacked the Capitol
The tsunami of money now flowing from corporations into the swamp of American politics is larger than ever.