Justice Kavanaugh and a Supreme Court majority rule that a commonwealth’s citizen can be denied a federal benefit available to other Americans. Only Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch see the injustice.
Puerto Rico
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Coronavirus Shows the Need for D.C. and Puerto Rico Statehood
How these parts of the country got shortchanged by the federal government.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump Doesn’t Understand Game Theory
The president fails as a negotiator because he doesn’t understand the incentives of his allies and opponents.
Posted inPolitical Animal
On November 6, Vote Like the Whole World Depended On It
If Republicans maintain political control in Washington, they will inflict damage on our planet that is irreversible.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Crazy Cannot Continue
Our system needs to be able to self-correct for this president before 2020.
Posted inFeatured, July/August 2018, Magazine
The 52-State Strategy: The Case for Puerto Rico
Ending the island’s colonial status would right a historic wrong—and permanently change the political map.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Rick Scott and Bill Nelson Compete for the Puerto Rican Vote
A large influx of Hurricane Maria refugees from Puerto Rico has settled in Florida and may determine who wins the Senate race there in the fall.
Posted inPolitical Animal
This is What You Call “Assuming the Voters Are Idiots”
Every time a Republican claims to be “centrist,” he or she is attempting to pull off a con.
Posted inPolitical Animal
An Honorable Life, With Honor in Death
David Buckel made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of protecting the only planet we call home.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Royal Scam: A Press Corps at Its Lowest Point
Seriously, who gives a damn? The attention that American mainstream-media entities are giving to the worthlessness in Windsor Castle today is nothing short of repulsive, an indictment of the Fourth Estate’s fetish for frivolity over seriousness and substance, a worsening of the anti-intellectual trends in American culture. Why are we paying so much attention to […]
