Tag: Government

The historian Joseph J. Ellis defines a political faction succinctly as “an organized minority whose very purpose [is] to undercut the public will, usually by…

How do you wage war? How do you define it? War is usually described as an organized struggle between human populations, but over the past…

Stranger and stranger. The 2020 political season has already been bizarre, and the surprises keep coming. At the same time, some things have been as…

Shortly after World War II, a film called “The War of the Worlds” depicted the invasion of Earth by space aliens fleeing their dying planet…

Three months ago, the smart money wouldn’t have bet a nickel on Bernie Sanders becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2020. Yes, he…

There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in America, living in fear, without a voice and listening to empty promises. Every day some of these people…

It’s come to this: the worst threat to the Republic isn’t Donald J. Trump. It’s Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is the billionaire flyover candidate who knows…

It has now been almost five years since Donald Trump came down his escalator (which he misremembers as an elevator) to announce himself as America’s…

All you really need to know about the current state of American politics, and America itself, was laid out more than 40 ago in a…

While the impeachment proceedings in the U. S. Senate began last week, President Trump, like Richard Nixon under fire before him, betook himself to foreign…