Tag: politics
Feb. 23, 2018
Analyzing Trump’s first year
The Trump presidency has now, courtesy of the Republican cabal in Congress and against all the history that has hitherto defined the office, entered its…

Feb. 9, 2018
Trump’s SOTU address: fake news
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address produced mixed reactions, but most concerning of all was the fact that the tone of the address…

Feb. 9, 2018
Assessing the true state of the union
The way we measure the state of the union is not appropriate for the union’s realities. President Donald Trump’s recent address made this glaringly clear.…

Feb. 2, 2018
Mindfulness: the key to political discussions
There has been a severe gap between the two main political parties that has been allowed to fester. This conflict has grown to the point…

Feb. 2, 2018
Bipartisanship is dead
We are now more than a year into the presidency of Donald Trump, and so it’s time for the president to address an aching nation,…
Jan. 26, 2018
The Confederate States of America
Suppose the Confederacy had won the Civil War. It was certainly not a given that it would be defeated, and, looking at the country today,…

Jan. 19, 2018
March on, ladies
Jan. 21, 2017, thousands of people flocked to Washington, and many other thousands gathered in across the country to march and bring awareness to the…

Dec. 8, 2017
Analyzing Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Dec. 6 marked the historic day that President Donald Trump announced that he would fulfill the Jerusalem Embassy Act passed by Congress in 1995, declaring…

Dec. 1, 2017
The decline of America’s century of influence
Donald Trump returned recently from his 12-day Asian trip, delighted to have been generally wined, dined and humored, while the Chinese were gleefully stepping up…

Nov. 17, 2017
The Russian Revolution changed politics
This Nov. 7 saw, by the Gregorian calendar, the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. By any measure, it was the most important political event…
