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Why Can’t Republicans Elect Women?
For decades, the number of GOP women in congress has barely grown. Will that change in 2020? In the long and mostly disappointing history of women…
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Trump’s presidency is over
You’d be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed. His verbal bombshells are louder than ever, but Donald J. Trump is no longer president of the United States.…
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America must solve the problem of abuse of power in law enforcement
Most of us have seen the video that captures the tragic death of George Floyd. Pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin, he clearly…
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If Trump Loses in November, He Will Thrust the U.S. Into a Legitimacy Crisis
The president is already setting the stage to challenge the election results One month ago, the polling aggregator at Real Clear Politics showed Joe Biden with…
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An American Spring of Reckoning
In death, George Floyd’s name has become a metaphor for the stacked inequities of the society that produced them. Consider for a moment how the events…
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The fall of the American counterrevolution
President Trump’s use of counterinsurgency practices to control the population has triggered the revolution he dreaded In history, events usually unfold the other way around. Revolutions…
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Finding the truth in the tragedy
We need competent leadership and confidence in science if we want to save our planet for future generations. The United States, due to the management of…
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American exceptionalism in the age of Trump
In my recent study of 14 presidents since 1945, “Do Morals Matter,” I found that Americans want a moral foreign policy, but have been torn over…
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Why America’s revolution won’t be televised
The so far purely emotional insurrection lacks political structure and a credible leader to articulate grievances The Revolution Won’t Be Televised because this is not a…
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America Is a Tinderbox: Scenes from a country in free fall.
The last two and a half months in America have felt like the opening montage in a dystopian film about a nation come undone. First the…
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Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?
Comparing 2020 to 1968 offers some disquieting lessons for the present. The most traumatic year in modern American history was 1968. But what is now the…
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AFA8: CAN WE TRUST AMERICA? MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON How to maximise US strength in Asia
Canberra today has one major foreign policy dilemma that outranks all others: how should Australia position itself between a more powerful China and an increasingly unpredictable…