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Slouching Toward Dictatorship: Trump Reigns and America Sleepwalks Aug. 26, 2025
Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what h... Read More
Attention Disorder: America Sleeps as Trump Hands Putin What He Wants Jul. 08, 2025
The late Charlie Munger, who with longtime friend Warren Buffett turned Berkshire Hathaway into a be... Read More
Will Tech Barons 'Magna Carta' Trump? Jun. 26, 2025
Sitting behind President Donald Trump at his inauguration were men who might well be called the baro... Read More
Democracy Is in Peril. Chapter 109 Jun. 05, 2025
WASHINGTON — "Democracy is in peril" is the warning bubbling up all over popular culture. Pres... Read More
1930s Redux: Stoking Resentments, a Demagogue Does His Thing Jun. 03, 2025
Hillary Clinton took quite a lambasting in 2016 when she used the word "deplorable" to describe the ... Read More
Democrats Should Divorce the 'Democratic' Socialists Oct. 19, 2023
It is impossible to champion Hamas and care about Palestinians in Israel's Gaza Strip. To support Ha... Read More
Midterms: The First Stress Test for Democracy (And Trump) Since Jan. 6 May. 25, 2022
Today is Tuesday, democracy's favorite day. There's a lot to talk about in that word. Primaries are... Read More
White-supremacist Propaganda Is Flourishing; True Conservatives Can Counter It Mar. 08, 2022
White-supremacist groups in the U.S. are distributing propaganda at historically high rates in the p... Read More
Read About the World's Biggest 'Get-Rich-Quick' Ponzi Scheme Feb. 20, 2022
We are in the middle of the world's biggest "get-rich-quick" Ponzi scheme. I'm not talking about CO... Read More
We Are in a Civil War; It's a War of Good Versus Evil; And Democrats Are the Confederate South Jan. 23, 2022
I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that this is evil. Look around. What Democrats believ... Read More
Conservative Zealotry Is Hobbling the Pandemic Response; It Will Cost Lives Jan. 17, 2022
Amid the spread of the most contagious coronavirus variant yet, major decisions by conservative poli... Read More
My Father Almost Died for His Country Fighting at Okinawa; Today, His Son Can No Longer Walk the Streets of Washington Without 'Papers' Jan. 16, 2022
Thursday wasn't a good day for President Joe Biden. First, the Supreme Court shouted "LET'S GO BRAND... Read More
A Call To Fight Rising Authoritarianism, in 2022 and Beyond Dec. 30, 2021
At the eve of a new year, it's traditional to make a resolution or two. I have no such list for myse... Read More
China and Russia: The Authoritarian-Imperialist Threat To World Peace Dec. 13, 2021
As 2021 ends, Russia threatens to invade Ukraine (eastern Europe) and China threatens to invade Taiw... Read More
An 'Abundance of Caution' Mentality Leads to Tyranny Dec. 01, 2021
This week, governments around the globe spun into full-scale panic thanks to the revelation of the s... Read More
The End of Risk and the End of Civilization Oct. 20, 2021
Human beings aren't great at assessing risk. In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversk... Read More
What Merrick Garland Must Do Now Oct. 14, 2021
The coming weeks will be the most consequential of Merrick Garland's life — not just for the a... Read More
What Kind of Person Are You, Really? Sep. 30, 2021
The United States is not just dealing with mutations of COVID-19. Our government and our culture hav... Read More
Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America? Sep. 28, 2021
There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew ... Read More
Why Freedom Is in Serious Jeopardy Sep. 14, 2021
There are many ways in which to divide humanity — the decent and the indecent, the happy and t... Read More
