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Bush Notes 'the Same Foul Spirit' Shared By al-Qaida and Domestic Extremists Sep. 14, 2021
Americans of divergent political persuasions found common cause to unite around President George W. ... Read More
A Very Different Take on Sept. 11: And the Tragedy Goes On Sep. 08, 2021
WASHINGTON — Out of the clearest blue sky, a thousand Tuesdays ago, four doomed planes came ro... Read More
Looking For Monsters to Slay Aug. 26, 2021
The debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan continues to unfold. This disas... Read More
America's Leaders Can Help Save a Declining Country by Coming Clean on Afghanistan Aug. 20, 2021
Republicans are busy bashing President Joe Biden for his tragically botched withdrawal from Afghanis... Read More
How To Stop the Next Stupid War Before it Starts Jul. 30, 2021
Americans are politically fractured, but they agree that our longest war was a mistake. Seventy-seve... Read More
Is Afghanistan a Failed Mission? Jul. 09, 2021
As in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973, the year our prisoners of war came home, America did not lose a maj... Read More
Is Populism Going to Fritter Away Over Time as George W. Bush Predicts? Mar. 26, 2021
Last week, former President George W. Bush said he's not worried about the current moment in America... Read More
Presidential Debate Questions I Would Ask Sep. 19, 2020
The political shadowboxing before presidential debates is cleverly choreographed. Take the 2000 cont... Read More
Many Republicans DO Have a Sense of Humor May. 09, 2020
An American politician can help herself politically by being able to believably use self-deprecating... Read More
What Makes the Coronavirus Crisis Different Mar. 15, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is hardly the first national crisis that Americans have faced in this centu... Read More
It May Not Build Character, but Politics Can Reveal Character Dec. 14, 2019
First, an anecdote circulating about the most courageously candid staff person in the White House al... Read More
Trump's Promise Aug. 21, 2019
President Donald Trump promised he'd get rid of bad rules. "Remove the anchor dragging us down!" he... Read More
Political Family Privilege: Let's End It May. 14, 2019
The Trump camp is making a very big deal out of Hunter Biden's 2014 gig with a Ukrainian oligarch. T... Read More
Most Wasted of All Days: One Without Laughter Dec. 15, 2018
Most American political leaders would agree with the poet e.e. cummings, who wisely wrote: "The most... Read More
Who Lost the World Bush 41 Left Behind? Dec. 07, 2018
George H.W. Bush was America's closer. Called in to pitch the final innings of the Cold War, Bush 41... Read More
Goodbye, Poppy. You Were Never One of Us. Dec. 05, 2018
The late George H.W. Bush was the man's man of his blessed generation, a Connecticut Yankee who star... Read More
The Irrationality of Baseball Fans Oct. 13, 2018
American philosopher Jerry Seinfeld famously exposed how irrational we American baseball fans must b... Read More
Not Taking Oneself Too Seriously Sep. 08, 2018
Mostly missing from the moving and deserved tributes to Sen. John McCain was attention to McCain's g... Read More
McCain's Greatest Gift to Obama Sep. 05, 2018
WASHINGTON — He spoke more eloquently in death than in life. With a grand farewell, the presi... Read More
John McCain and Me Aug. 30, 2018
About four years ago, I was browsing through one of Manhattan's last remaining independent bookstore... Read More
