Making things worse won’t make things better.
Mike Lofgren
Mike Lofgren is a historian, writer, and former congressional staff member for the House and Senate. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal
Is Sean Spicer Gaslighting the Press?
If these lies continue for four years, they could erode the basic standards of discourse in a healthy democracy.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
Worst. Negotiator. Ever.
Donald Trump’s nuclear arms gambit shows he’s a loser.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Operation Rent Seeking
How the war on terrorism became a business model.
Posted inPolitics
Press Agent for the Super-Rich
It is hardly surprising that the super-rich hire press agents to sing their praises. Since time out of mind, the powerful have tossed a few pieces of silver to writers willing to extol them. So it appears to be with John Steele Gordon, a business and financial history writer long associated with Forbes magazine whose […]
