BLOG 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…
ARTICLES A Few Suggested New Readings 5 Aug 20195 Aug 2019 Video: A Moving Cry for Change in Gun Laws: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/08/04/relative-of-victims-message-to-trump-dayton-ohio-mass-shooting-nr-vpx.cnn My friend and Asia scholar Mark Selden teamed up to write the following on “The Dangerous New US Consensus on…
APB Another Week Under Trumpocracy 21 Aug 201820 Aug 2018 Some takeaways from another week under He Who Would Be Emperor: “All politics is local.” Speaking to local issues rather than echoing the official mantra may be the only way…
American Politics and the World… Post #147: Fake News? Fake President! 29 Jan 201727 Feb 2017 The Donald Trump “way” is to shout foul any time he is criticized, for as we have discovered, this man is innately incapable of acknowledging error, much less apologizing. The…
In the Human Interest - Mel Gurtov 