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The End of the Cold War and 2017 American Politics Feb. 18, 2017
In 1988, a full year before the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet empire broke up, Georgy Arbatov... Read More
Partisan Lines Stay Fixed Amid Trump Turmoil Feb. 17, 2017
Amid the turmoil of the first month of the Trump administration, with courts blocking his temporary ... Read More
Telling the Post-Truth With Alternative Facts Jan. 27, 2017
When President Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway used the phrase "alternative facts" while engaging... Read More
Congress Passes a Not-Very-Good Toxic Chemical Bill Jun. 21, 2016
Just when you're fed up with the U.S. Congress (the approval rating is 11 percent) comes word that i... Read More
Democrats' 3rd-Term Blues Dec. 19, 2015
History tends to make Democrats nervous about the 2016 White House election. They know that since 19... Read More
Chris Christie Channels Ralph Perk May. 23, 2015
History, just by what it selects to remember, can indeed be cruel. Consider, for example, Republican... Read More
Tatiana's Story Jan. 02, 2015
Maybe it's because we're drawn to human interest stories during the holidays, but many tend to stand... Read More
Premature Postmortems Oct. 25, 2014
Grantland Rice, a popular American sportswriter of the first half of the 20th century, gave us an of... Read More
Officially Killing Americans Oct. 15, 2014
The Food and Drug Administration can make two types of errors. It can approve a drug that has danger... Read More
Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves; Americans Love Their Politicians Jun. 20, 2014
Even in the most catastrophic year for congressional incumbents, 90 percent of them will win re-elec... Read More
Who Owns You? Jun. 11, 2014
Darcy Olsen, president of the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, and Richard Garr, president of Neur... Read More
GOP, Rediscover Your Backbone Apr. 29, 2014
Please explain this: Obama is incredibly unpopular, and Obamacare is one of the main reasons, yet so... Read More
Hillary Clinton Won't Have an Easy Ride to Presidency Mar. 25, 2014
Will Hillary Clinton be elected America's next president? The polls suggest she will. Recent polls c... Read More
Don't Write Those Tea Party Obituaries Just Yet Mar. 04, 2014
February marked the fifth anniversary of the reemergence of the label "Tea Party" in American politi... Read More
Why Congress Is Held in Contempt Jan. 17, 2014
"I've got a pen," said President Obama early this week. "I can use that pen to sign ... Read More
96 Percent of Americans Are Wrong About Congress Dec. 13, 2013
For more than 20 years, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has been measuring how voters feel about Con... Read More
Black America vs. Obama? Jul. 10, 2011
"The Disappearing Black Middle Class" ran the headline over the Chicago Sun-Times story. A... Read More
