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At a Time Like This We Need more Truth Tellers Like Michelle Wolf

by Ed Simon

Her great contribution is demonstrating how afraid of uncomfortable truths we’ve become.

Can People on the Left and the Right Still Talk?

by Walter G. Moss

They better or we’re in deep deep trouble.

What Do Trumpism, Bannonism, Putinism, Orbánism, Erdoğanism, Xiism, Modiism, and Duterteism Have in Common?

by Ronald Beiner

They’re appropriating the complaints of Nietzsche and Heidegger.

Sorry Fukuyama. But History Has Returned and It’s Nasty.

by Ed Simon

The question of the moment is what can be done about it.

Children Are At Risk. Why Aren’t We Doing More?

by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Kriste Lindenmeyer

100 years ago Woodrow Wilson launched a federal initiative to improve children’s health and welfare. He called it Children’s Year. It’s time for another.

Watergate Redux?

by James D. Robenalt

The parallels are stunning.

The End of the Trump Presidency Now Looms

by Ronald L. Feinman

While it now seems likely that Trump will outlast the 492 days of Zachary Taylor’s presidency, it’s doubtful his term will last as long as Warren Harding’s.

No Matter How Bad Trump Is at His Job, He’s Unlikely to Be Impeached Unless Congress Can Finger Him for a Crime

by David O. Stewart

Impeachment is a political act masquerading as a judicial proceeding.

The Long and Despicable Roots of Voter Suppression and Similar Tactics

by Frank Palmeri and Ted Wendelin

They go back to the very origins of the country when the white South sought to dominate politics.

Can Books by a Fired High Official Like James Comey Damage a President?

by Bruce W. Dearstyne

It’s happened before. The president? Andrew Jackson, Trump’s favorite.

Why No One Should Be Shocked at Paul Ryan’s Retirement

by Arthur I. Cyr

Whatever his personal reasons, structural changes in Congress make life tough for any House Speaker.

How Come Wall Street Hasn’t Been Caught Up in the #MeToo Movement?

by Robert Wright

The short answer: They’ve already been here before.

How We Got Trump

by Donne Levy

The change in our political structure that led directly to Trump’s election.

What You May Not Realize About the Supreme Court Ruling that Backed Affirmative Action

by Anders Walker

40 years after the Bakke decision its endorsement of diversity may have been an ironic legacy of Jim Crow.

The Real Threat We Face Won't Be Solved by a Wall

by James Stejskal

We need to spend more on missile defense.

Trump and Jackson: Two Power Grabbers, but with a Difference

by Donald J. Fraser

Trump is self-serving, while Jackson used his power to advance democracy.

What We Really Have to Worry About Isn’t Trump

by Benjamin Carter Hett

It’s if a more competent politician who exploits rural grievances succeeds him.

The Pardon Power Can Be Used to Obstruct Justice. Just Ask Richard Nixon.

by James D. Robenalt

The pardon power may be absolute, but that does not mean it can be used in the commission of a crime by the chief executive.

What’s Ailing Us? This Is What Jefferson Would Say.

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Ethology studies back him up.

March Madness and the Lengths People Have Been Willing to Go to Try to Reduce Uncertainty

by Chad Carlson

As this historian of the sport shows, it’s an old story.