The first memoir by an Obama speechwriter adds to a storied genre while avoiding its usual cynicism.
Richard Nixon
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Seemingly Insignificant Decisions Affect the Course of History
How will Trump’s openings (or closings) impact our future? The Vietnam War offers a clue.
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It’s 1953 All Over Again
It’s not 1968 we’re living through again. It’s much more like 1953.
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The Sound of Silence
On November 8, 2017, let’s have a moment of silence. We need a moment to reflect on the chaos and disorder of the past year. A moment to look back on how much we could have gained…and how much we have already lost and may still yet lose. We need a moment to reflect upon […]
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After Charlottesville, A Time for Choosing
C’mon everybody This is your life I’m talking about a revolution We gotta organize We don’t need no segregation We don’t need no race New age revelation? I think we got a case –Prince, “Sexuality,” 1981 You know who you are. Not the white nationalists, the all-wrong “alt-right,” the folks who want to make America […]
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Will the Sick Puppy Wag the Dog?
Do you doubt for a moment that he’d do it? Do you doubt for a moment that he’d go to that level? Would you trust him not to do it? We bore witness to “Operation Urgent Fury” in 1983, “Operation Just Cause” in 1989, “Operation Desert Storm” in 1991 and “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in 2003. […]
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On Jeff Flake, Goldwater and Trump
Sen. Flake thinks the Republicans have deviated from true conservatism. He’s wrong.
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“Post-Trump Stress Disorder” Will Haunt Americans for Years to Come
A few weeks back, progressive Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA) attempted to hit the brakes on impeachment talk in Democratic circles, suggesting that such chatter was far too premature. The odds of Trump being impeached and removed from office remain low: the chances of Republicans in the House and Senate holding Trump fully accountable over his […]
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The Republicans Are Trolling Themselves Now
Trump and McConnell are punishing their own party for refusing to follow their failed leadership.
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Operation Bury Bernie: The Political Motive of the Jane Sanders Investigation
Imagine a sports team celebrating a championship victory even before the playoffs have started, and you have a good idea of what the mood must have been like among Donald Trump’s top political advisors after the New York Times ran this story: A federal investigation into a long-ago land deal by Senator Bernie Sanders’s wife […]
