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If I were in Joe Biden’s shoes planning to address Americans today, I might say something like this. “Hello, America!! Hello to all of you, emerging from your homes, emerging from lock-downs, suffering from the pandemic and missed graduations and proms and parties and funerals; suffering from police misconduct and racial and social injustice, struggling […]

If the video of George Floyd’s murder showed President Trump kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, their Republican colleagues, Fox News and perhaps even a majority of the Supreme Court, would dismiss the murder as merely Trump’s “unconventional” approach to law and order.   But the videotape

Biden’s most critical choice for the 2020 election is whom to select as his running mate.  On this one decision rests the future of our nation for at least a generation to come.  If Biden makes the wrong choice, Biden will lose, and so will the nation.  The question is not whether the Vice-Presidential candidate

While socialist Bernie Sanders and radically left Elizabeth Warren appear to be the top choice of Iowa and New Hampshire voters, both are wrong for our country.  Both Warren and Sanders terrify Trump’s base, moderate Republicans and even some Democrats. If either wins the Democratic nomination they will virtually assure Trump’s re-election and four more

The newest non-Netflix dramatic series not likely to get an Emmy in 2021 – The Unlikely Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump — for all its gravitas, soaring rhetoric and absurd legal arguments, is much simpler than it looks for two reasons.  First, everyone in the room and most television viewers know that Donald Trump

In 2004 Vermont Governor Howard Dean, then running for President, claimed he represented the “Democratic Wing” of the Democratic Party.  Today we urgently need a candidate who represents the core of the Democratic Party, and essentially the core of all American voters.  We need a leader who offers a platform for the country that is

As Trump would say, “everyone knows” and “everyone says” that the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings are rigged, they are a Democratic “witch hunt” and a Republican partisan political show produced by all white, old-men Senators who are no longer virile enough to compete in ego with Donald Trump or with Brett Kavanaugh.   If Kavanaugh were truly

The recent democratic losses in special elections were not a win for Trump.  But those losses should finally and fully confirm for Democratic leaders – Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Perez, Keith Ellison and others seeking to lead or influence the Democratic Party – that Democrats will get nowhere if they only define themselves as

Greece is on the brink, of default and/or exiting the EU, but no one seems to know how close the edge is, or how this can or will play out. The EU seems unwilling to relax its demands for Greek austerity.  And the new Greek government seems unwilling to play by the old rules, of

During the cold war the primary contests were between the Soviet Union and the US, between communism and democracy, between command economies and market economics.  While those debates have largely been resolved, today’s issues are much more regional in nature, and in some ways more critical, since international relationships are more a factor of the