What is it with small countries egging large countries on toward war? Israel in the Middle East Ukraine between the…
Washington at Work
Letting Men Handle the Abortion Issue
Legislatures (both national and state), courts (ditto for the Supreme Court) and the national conversation on abortion is mostly left…
Plantation America
And here you thought slavery was a century and a half behind us. Who ‘owns’ us now? Well, it’s a…
Our Military Re-Invents Warfare
And not a moment too soon. We sure aren’t having any luck with the old-fashioned forms of fighting. Good thing…
Democrats and Republicans Each Fail in Specific Ways
Republican failure will come from being on the wrong side of history and that’s a catch-phrase for restricting voter-access, attitudes…
A Head Start in Recovering Our Moral Base
Republican or Democrat, rich-man, poor-man, atheist or believer, it’s pretty much unanimous that America has lost its moral compass. As…
Blaming Biden for Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld’s War Crimes
There hasn’t been much statesmanship on display in American politics for half a century. Some, but not a lot. John…
Power Is as Much Consented to as Claimed
That’s a brilliant line from a review of Christopher Clark’s Prisoners of Time. It’s a historic fact, as proven by…
Supreme Court Justice Kagan Lights Up the Sky in Dissent
Four days after Independence Day, we find America is not now as independent as it was before The Supreme Court…
Ho-Hum to a Climate ‘Point of no Return’
I mean really, how often are we going to scream that there’s a hole in the dike? We’ve known for…