Trump was a political entrepreneur who leveraged the rise to dominance of the bigoted Nativists and populists in the Republican party. Tucker...
Last week following the Capitol Riot, Susan Collins said “my first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike...
From the New York Intelligencer: from a senior member of Trump's Admin, in response to the insurrection Trump incited at the Capitol Building:...
He aspires to be a tyrant, and like all aspiring tyrants, he has a significant popular Faction supporting him. You people here on this board who...
The GOP was cracking up well before Trump came on the scene; this is of a piece with the fact that the GOP was well into the process of becoming...
To protect democracy in these times of Trumpism and rising Fascism, we need to go back to a very old institution: Ostracism. Ostracism was...
It is a manifest fact that Trump is not nor ever was a legitimate president. Trump holds his office legally, and he can legally exercise the...
"The defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides’s Trap. More than 2,400...
I think it's probably best just to refer to the Trump phenomenon for what it is: it's Fascism. Fascism is characterized by xenophobic nationalism...
Since the abortion controversy comes down to a dispute over basic rights, if there were a means of sublating the dispute and preserving the...
I doubt that Israel will last long enough to see its centennial. Like the Christian Crusader-States established by the Europeans in the Crusades,...
Garland's nomination is going nowhere, and will go nowhere. While at the same time, the Democrats' prospects for retaining control of the White...
Article 2 is explicitly concerned with important decision-making prerogatives of the Executive, to fill Constitutionally named government offices....
It's so sadly typical, the threads you see in these sections. All this handwringing over Russia, over Daesh in Syria and Iraq... All of which is a...
See the attached: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/the-charts-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-media-bias/257961/
Maybe they think they're making some blazing critique, or think they're engaging in some kind of refutation-by-accusation of hypocrisy... I don't...
Just a thought, here. If we encountered extra-terrestrial intelligent life, they would be straightaway introduced to our Babel of religious...
I ask because Americans are divided today as they never have been, before. In earlier phases of our history, the parties were assemblages of...
- Great line from Crimes and Misdemeanors. It's a line delivered by a Jewish grandfather to his skeptical teenage grandson, after the grandson...
Let's just assume that God exists, and created us like the legends say. What do we conclude? That God is mighty, sure. Does God's prerogative...
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