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Post #289: United We Fail

4 Feb 2021
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the…
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Post #287: The End of American Exceptionalism

9 Jan 20218 Jan 2021
Sedition Whatever you want to call the violent assault in Washington on January 6, 2021—a mob action, a siege, a coup attempt, a riot, domestic terrorism, an insurrection—the fault clearly…
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Post #280: Biden’s Jobs 1-10

8 Nov 2020
In the next several weeks, President-elect Joe Biden will be preoccupied with creating a 100-day action agenda.  It might be called "Operation Renewal." Here are my top-10 choices, in no…
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Post #278: Trumpism Has Brought Democracy to Its Knees

19 Oct 202020 Dec 2020
In what we can only hope is its terminal phase, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to make a mockery of American democracy.  Friendly foreign observers bemoan the…
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Post #259: AWOL: Trump’s Disappearing Leadership

19 Apr 202019 Apr 2020
Who's In Charge? Donald Trump’s political strategy during the coronavirus pandemic is simple: insist the federal government only plays a backup role when it comes to providing needed services and…
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Post #258: Putin Forever!

3 Apr 20202 Apr 2020
(Note to Readers: Authoritarian leaders everywhere—yes, that includes the US—are exploiting internal challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic to expand their power to repress their citizens. These power grabs also…
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APB: Trump’s Cure and Our Disease

26 Mar 202026 Mar 2020
The surgeon-general said so. The federal reserve chairman said so. Epidemiologists across the US said so. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most credible member of Trump’s coronavirus task force, said so.…
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APB: Derelict Leadership on Health Security

21 Mar 202021 Mar 2020
If one event shows both Trump’s flawed character and his ineptitude, it would have to be his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It is all about him, claiming superior knowledge…

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