State of the Union … What Was Gained by Heckling?
An Unusually Vigorous Biden Seemed Clever in Using the Verbal Challenges To Nail the Opposition Down With the partisan smoke the skirmish from the State of the Union... Read more.
State of the Union: Divided
The State of Our Union Is Divided and Nearly Incapable of Resolving Anything We put too much emphasis on the State of the Union address, which arrives again tonight.... Read more.
A Season Opening for GOP Subpoenas
These Republican-led Committees Are as Much Interested – If Not Dominated – By a Desire To Embarrass As with all unfolding public rituals, the press reported... Read more.
Popping the Balloon
The Only Balloon Popped This Week Was the One of Credibility The Chinese weather-ship-spy-balloon is gone by now, shot down yesterday once it had blown off the very... Read more.
Videos That Should Disgust Us
Is This the Way Things Are Now? Three very separate videos of rage and personal violence emerged last week, but rather than engendering shame, their very presence... Read more.
Waiting for the Shoe to Drop
Trump Is Living Proof That Some Elites Are Above the Law as We Know It The exasperating wait for Donald Trump’s legal comeuppance – in any of the many cases... Read more.
We Are What We Question
This Effort To Resist Learning Is Seen as a Political Plus There’s a reason that democratic nations resist negotiating with terrorists even for the return of hostages:... Read more.
Challenging Racial Justice
There Has Been Less Progress Than What Was Promised It seems clear that we will be hearing renewed pleas from President Joe Biden at his State of the Union address... Read more.
Newsmax vs. DirecTV: Business Dispute or Censorship?
A Petulant Display of Partisanship That Defies Hypocrisy Even if your political news habits don’t include Newsmax, an outwardly right-leaning media outlet, you... Read more.
This Is Not an Automated Column
Is Artificial Intelligence Friend or Foe? As soon as we hear of new scientific or technological development, we seem to react in automatic, predictable, and nearly... Read more.