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Stop Playing Politics – Provide Americans Universal Health Care – Part 1

If you like this piece, email it to others. And if you really liked it, become a Patreon patron to help me reach other readers.  Although Republicans in...

A Debt Ceiling Holds Our Economy Hostage

If Congress doesn’t raise the ceiling, one of the political parties threatens to bring our economy to a halt. That is not a sensible...

President Biden can and must Resolve America’s Immigration Crisis

President Biden is the only person in government who can break Congress's record of failure.  No pundit can predict what heated issue will dominate the...

SCOTUS could let state legislatures decide presidential election counts

Republicans are arguing about resurrecting an Independent State Legislature Theory (ISLT) derived from language within the dysfunctional Articles of Confederation Constitution. This is the Constitution...

The 2022 Senate elections exposed the MAGA movement’s weakness

Their performance foreshadows the 2024 elections. Dr. Mehmet Oz at Service Nation Summit (photo: Jim Gillooly/PEI/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons) Two core beliefs define the MAGA movement....

The Far-Right Freedom Caucus will steer Congress’s agenda for the next two years

The Red Wave was a ripple; nevertheless, reactionary Republicans will be crashing down on Congress's House.  Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy is bargaining his way into...

Democracies have prosecuted corrupt leaders – America can too

According to Axis Research, since 2000, at least 76 countries have jailed or prosecuted their former leaders. Many were democracies, including established functioning ones such as...

Don’t expect another attempted coup– it may not be necessary

Was there really an attempted coup? Bennie Thompson, chair of the House of Representative's select committee investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol, said, "January...

The Biden Problem and the Midterm Elections

            To win the midterm elections, Democrats must address the problem of President Biden’s poor approval ranking with voters. The public’s support of a candidate...

Messaging Abortion Rights in Swing States Will Determine Who Controls the Senate in 2021

With the Democrats blocked from codifying the protections provided to women by the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision, they must now turn their...

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