Confirmed: Trump’s Distrusted, Infantile Cartoon Show Vs. Clinton’s Distrusted, Rational Adult Show
The GOP Convention slugfest already confirms this election comes down to our child energy vs. our adult tenure — politically, between the gullible open to a con artist’s reality-denying, grammar-school reductionism vs. more circumspect voters who embrace a distrusted, hawkish but manifestly rational adult.
Trump 2016: The Three Shadows Haunting Cleveland
A best-case scenario of a President Trump could be like Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi: an embarrassment for society and a disaster for the country.
Friday’s Events: The Legacy and Rules of American Foreign Policy and 21 Questions for...
The United States is great at focusing on any sort of carnage and blaming ISIS, one of hundreds of groups in Syria, and building alliances with Sunni states.
What is the World? Who are We? What are We Going to do About...
We are better people, individually and collectively, when we reject hubris and embrace humility, and we stand a better chance of making real progress when we better understand the world and our place in it.
Writing as Resistance
Doomed writers buried their accounts of the Warsaw ghetto in the hope that they could teach whoever unearthed the documents about good, evil, indifference and the importance of the truth as an act of resistance. They have left us a trove of papers on how to construct a life of meaning.
Five Conspirators in the Eradication of the Middle Class
Meet the kingpins, the enforcers, the illusionists, the con men, and the hitmen that are all working together to eradicate the middle class.
French Paradox: Terror Attacks Continue as ISIS Loses Ground
If the Republicans actually want to hinder terrorists, they might consider confirming a new treasury undersecretary and tightening up legislation.
Eric Holder’s Justice
How does Holder justify his behavior to himself?
Trustworthy Hillary
While Hillary Clinton’s impulse is understandable, it is also self-defeating, as now evidenced by the growing portion of the public that doesn’t trust her.
Videotaping A Crime Is Not A Crime
Videotaping a crime is not a crime. It's a public service. Police harassment of citizens who provide video evidence of police brutality has to stop.









