Not Something to Boast About
During the recent State of the Union address and the Republican party retreat, the current president and his allies lauded the strength...
Democracy in Dysfunction - Is There a Way Forward?
In my post on Friday, I asserted a premise that I expected and hoped would be provocative—that the bad guys have won. I used three...
How the Bad Guys Won
The archetypal stories and myths that we read as children followed a clear story arc. Good characters met evil ones, and while things...
In Praise of Trump? Not So Fast.
Recently, The New York Times (“in the spirit of open debate”) reached out to Trump voters who are happy with the direction of the...
War on the Poor - Which Side Are You On?
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get rid of it. The time has come for an...
Our Broken System - America's War on the Poor
We have a deep problem in this country, and Donald Trump is just the symptom--a particularly awful and destructive one, but a symptom...