Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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Biden wants to prevent a strong primary challenge. He shouldn’t get...

A president is not a party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination.

Biden made it harder for Democrats to win. He’d be an...

He’s a drag on the party, a boon to Republicans, and—if he runs again—he’d be a weak candidate against the GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Is Joe Biden channeling Tom Paine?

The new White House budget plan echoes wealth tax perspectives over two centuries old.

Trump planning to run in 2024? From his jail cell?

This guy is a political crook that has been allowed to run free—so far.

Independent impeachment & emoluments scrutiny essential—or Trump II looms

Until strict categories about impeachment or emoluments, let alone lying, are enacted, with strong penalties levied by independent commissions, the uncivilized barbarians among us will wreck havoc.

The world welcomes Biden but hedges its bets

Will political volatility be America’s downfall?

Post-inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden’s America must be truly inclusive

If we are to include the substantive contributions of African Americans in our discussion of an American soul, we cannot presume that this is limited to the mere inclusion of African Americans in a Biden cabinet that “looks like America.”

The worst president

“On Jan. 20, we can still presume Trump will be gone from the White House.”

Trump accused of ‘criminal extortion’ after asking Georgia officials to ‘find’...

"Everyone who has a tape of Trump abusing his power should release it now."

The great clanging, self-inflicted, farcical Trump implosion

I conclude Trump took himself out of the race because he was and is in self-destruction mode.

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Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...

On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.

Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump  

Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?

Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...

Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.

CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10 million off health...

Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.

To resist injustice in Gaza and the wider world

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is neither polemic nor memoir, although it contains elements of both.