BLOG Post #450-2: The Trump-Musk Outlaw Regime–The Scorecard So Far 17 Mar 202517 Mar 2025 (Note to the Reader: This is a third iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of the Trump administration. Sorry for the length, but the numerous…
BLOG Post #430: Gathering of the Clan: The Trump Criminal Enterprise at the RNC 20 Jul 20241 Nov 2024 The Criminals Former FBI director James Comey once compared Donald Trump’s gang of loyalists to the Mafia. “Holy crap, they are trying to make each of us an amica…
BLOG Post #426: The Elections-Democracy Gap 5 Jun 2024 South Africa, India, and Mexico just held general elections. Britain will hold a general election July 4. The US will hold one Nov. 5. Record-setting demonstrations in Israel may yet…
BLOG Post #394: The Doubtful Future of the American Experiment 22 Oct 202322 Oct 2023 Signs of Decline Peter Baker, the outstanding New York Times columnist, writes: “There was a time, not that long ago, when the United States presumed to teach the world…
BLOG Post #382: The Widening Breach, in Israel and in Israel-US Relations 24 Jul 202324 Jul 2023 The Growing Divide Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, has passed the first law to scale back judicial independence, in line with the ambitions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s largely far-right, ultra-religious cabinet.…
BLOG Post #370: A Political Lynching 7 Apr 20237 Apr 2023 The Tennessee House of Representatives, dominated by a Republican supermajority, voted yesterday to expel two Black Democratic legislators who had participated in a peaceful public demonstration on behalf of…
BLOG Post #365: The Coup in Israel 28 Feb 202328 Feb 2023 Israel has always been touted as America’s most reliable friend in the Middle East, a bastion of democracy in a region dominated by autocracies. Now that picture is fraying as…
BLOG Post #358: China’s COVID Uprising 4 Dec 20227 Jan 2023 Significant dissent in China reared its head for the first time since the Tiananmen uprising in 1989. In many of China’s major cities, protesters joined hands to denounce the COVID…
BLOG Post #356: A Post-Election Caution 15 Nov 2022 Reasons for Concern What a difference a day makes, as the old song goes. The day before Election Day, liberals and progressives feared the worst: a solidly MAGA takeover…
BLOG Post #353: Europe’s Far-Right Lurch 23 Oct 202222 Oct 2022 The struggle to save democracy is proving even more difficult in Europe than here in the US. Virtually every European country is bedeviled by rising conflict between traditional political parties…
BLOG Post #323 – Destroying Democracy: China in Hong Kong 11 Jan 202211 Jan 2022 An audio version of this blog is available at https://www.podserve.fm/episodes/48006/32-destroying-democracy-china-in-hong-kong.mp3 On July 1, 1997 the United Kingdom formally handed Hong Kong over to China under an agreement that was supposed…
BLOG Post #321: Downhill from the Summit for Democracy 19 Dec 202125 Dec 2021 The just-concluded Summit for Democracy was intended to be a rallying point for democratic and nearly-democratic states, with pep talks on confronting rising authoritarianism and building democratic institutions. One hundred…
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