Articles by Robert Zaller
Mar. 1, 2019
The Great Regression: America in the last 50 years
The year 2019 offers several landmark dates: the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, the 70th of the founding of NATO and the 30th…
Feb. 22, 2019
Amazon would have had contributed to gentrification in NYC
Amazon may swallow the world in the end. But it won’t get Long Island City. That was the big news out of the Big Apple,…
Feb. 15, 2019
Afghanistan: The United States’ longest and most unjust war
We got into Afghanistan without thinking it through. We effectively abandoned the fight there within a year, as the George W. Bush regime began to…
Feb. 8, 2019
Government rule under one demagogue leads to tyranny
In “Politics,” the book that founded the study of political science, Aristotle distinguished three basic forms of government: kingship, or rule by a single person;…
Jan. 25, 2019
Pelosi vs. Trump: a showdown during the government shutdown
It’s anybody’s guess how the present government shutdown will end, or at what cost. What is clear is that Donald Trump has met his match…
Jan. 18, 2019
A national emergency may be possible
As the shutdown that has closed a quarter of the federal government for nearly a month proceeds, the likelihood that Donald Trump will declare a…
Jan. 11, 2019
Trump has isolated himself with his irrational thoughts
When future generations look back on the second decade of the 20th century, they will mark the point when it began as the day in…
Nov. 30, 2018
George W. Bush’s image is being wrongfully whitewashed
George Orwell must be tired of turning over in his grave in the age of President Donald Trump, but the biggest whopper of all has…
Nov. 16, 2018
War never ends
This past week has seen the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron of France.…
Nov. 9, 2018
Trump is a sympton of democracy’s failure
A few months ago, I wrote a piece in these pages suggesting that we regard Donald Trump as our first fascist president. It set off…
