“The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by Congress” is how Michael Waldman, CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, describes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The former counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell wrote in the conservative National Review that “It federalizes elections in a way that Republicans have long opposed.”
Since mid-March, the Senate...
Our military’s overwhelming tactical victories do not amount to a winning strategy. Even though Trump told the nation in his April televised address that the world is watching and “can’t believe what they’re seeing, the brilliance of the United States military!” A strategy can only succeed by setting a...
Two thousand years separate the Roman Marcus Licinius Crassus in his failed attempt to invade Iran from President Donald J. Trump’s faltering current military effort. Nevertheless, they share the same character flaws that led them to make disastrous decisions. Crassus’s effort resulted in the Roman Army’s worst defeat since...
Even in war, we need to protect our democratic culture.
While Trump’s Iranian War may continue to capture our much-needed attention, it is essential that the public see this conflict as representative of our Trump era of rule – where rules are twisted far beyond their original intent.
Despite the Administration’s...
From FDR Presidential Library & Museum, Manuel G. Silberger, Lithograph 1936, WPA - Federal Art Project
If conservatives accept President Donald Trump’s agenda to dismantle our republic’s laws and principles, they could go down The Road to Serfdom, as Friedrich A. Hayek’s book title suggests.
Hayek, an Austrian-British economist and Nobel laureate, believed that “the...
Overcoming opposition from right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats, the House reached a compromise to pass the budget bill and the Continuing Resolution (CR). The agreement funds all departments except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If the parties don’t reach a compromise on a funding bill for DHS, its...
An elderly naturalized U.S. citizen forced out of his home by ICE into the freezing weather
ICE agents’ aggressive tactics in arresting people in their homes, workplaces, and from their cars have sparked nationwide protests, as they appear to be acting as the president’s paramilitary police rather than as a publicly...
Class conflict in America has been primarily framed either in economic terms favored by the left or in cultural terms favored by the right. The Epstein files could be presented from either perspective, but their most potent impact has been the cultural division they expose between an elite class...
When critics suggest potential illnesses President Donald Trump might have, they point to evidence of a possible ailment. They notice bruises on his hands, swollen joints, dozing off during televised meetings, and his rambling, disjointed speeches. However, they never identify the one hallmark of a serious illness that he...
At the end of November, President Donald Trump permanently paused migration from nations he described as ‘Third World Countries.’” Then he followed up by halting all asylum claims, pausing visa issuances for Afghan nationals, and in December, he began calling Somalis “garbage.” He particularly targeted Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from...
Beginning today, there is just enough time to vote and possibly pass legislation in the Senate, forcing the House Republicans to vote or risk killing the ACA credits.
The Democratic Party Lacks Competent Leadership
Members of the Democratic Party are arguing over who was responsible for their failed attempt to use...
What is the purpose of a nation’s army? Common sense would say that it is to defend the nation’s territory and protect its citizens from foreign powers that could destroy their homes, businesses, and peace.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, in line with President Trump’s plan to create a MAGA-Military,...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is rejecting liberal woke beliefs because he claims they have weakened and misguided our military. He introduced the generals and admirals to the new Department of War, no longer called the Department of Defense, because Trump saw “defense as too politically correct.”
Hegseth said the...
The folly of assassinations is that they generate the opposite of what the assassin intended. Aside from the tragedy of taking a human life, there is a pattern of how assassinations work against what the assassins aim to accomplish.
Perhaps this realization could prevent assassins before they pull the trigger,...
At the end of August, huge banners hung from trucks circling Chicago’s downtown streets, carrying a message for President Donald Trump: "Do not come to Chicago" and "FASCISTS ARE NOT WELCOME."
Name-calling in politics is more of a tradition than an anomaly. However, after Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016,...