Dear White People

Posted by on Aug 7, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments In 2012, Roseanne Barr ran for president. The actress/comedian received the nomination of California’s feminist-socialist Peace and Freedom Party. She chose Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, as her running mate. Barr took strong positions on environmental sustainability. She wanted the United States to withdrawfrom Iraq and Afghanistan, and she opposed any war with Iran....
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The Insurrectionists

Posted by on Dec 29, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Don’t kid yourself: 2016 was a revolutionary year in the United States. Yes, I know, the United States is a deeply conservative country. Americans don’t engage in periodic attempts to overthrow the system. There is no viable political party that threatens the status quo. When protesters gather in Washington, they have no intention of storming Congress, the White House, or the Federal...
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Worst. 100 Days. Ever.

Posted by on Apr 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments If I were a Trump supporter, I’d be furious at the coverage of the president’s first 100 days. The mainstream media has engaged in a bout of competitive schadenfreude as headline writers and columnists vie for the distinction of deriving the most pleasure from the administration’s failures. Pundits and journalists have made much of the legislation unpassed, the positions unfilled, the...
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Goodbye, Clinton!

Posted by on Jan 20, 2017 in Articles, Eastern Europe, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments Two days before the November elections, Elizabeth Moreno was driving to the Democratic Party headquarters in Manassas to pick up a list of addresses. She was planning to spend another day of canvassing to get out the vote for her candidate Hillary Clinton. Elizabeth had taken off a full week from her job at one of Washington’s premier foreign policy thinktanks to devote herself to electing the...
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Bartleby the American

Posted by on Nov 26, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments In my senior year of college, my Russian teacher pulled me aside. He told me that the CIA was recruiting on campus. I should consider applying for a job. It was 1986. Mikhail Gorbachev had taken the helm of the Soviet Union, but the Cold War was still very much in place. “The CIA?” I said. “Really?” “I know your politics,” my professor said. “But don’t you think it’s better for...
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It Can’t Happen Here (But It Just Did)

Posted by on Nov 26, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Domestic Policy | 0 comments In the typical time travel story, an enterprising person from the future goes back to 1922 to assassinate young Hitler, or to 1963 to interrupt Lee Harvey Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. This time, however, the smarter denizens of the future world didn’t save us from the horrors of the present. Instead, Donald Trump somehow got control of the time machine and used it for...
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