Why can’t we see what is in front of our faces? “As horrific as Trump’s systematic perversion of reality is, it is a symptom of the problem, not the underlying problem,” writes Lofgren. “A distorting misrepresentation of evident facts, deliberate or unconscious, already suffused public life in America.” (Credit: Illustration: Variety; Elements: Shutterstock) In 1946,…
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Amazon’s HQ2 Is Bad for the D.C. Area
The continued concentration of big tech in coastal cities hurts everyone. Published Tuesday Nov. 20 in Washington Monthly ( Link to article) The announcement of Crystal City as the site for Amazon’s new satellite headquarters was greeted with predictable cheers by area chambers of commerce and local politicians. But is it really good for most…
This Shady Consultant Is Paying Guiliani While He’s Also Trump’s Lawyer
Louis Freeh’s path from FBI director to representing corrupt clients is a distinctly Washington story. Published September 17, 2018 in Washington Monthly ( link to article) One of the endlessly fascinating things about Washington is that once you start pulling a thread close to one of the town’s gray eminences, there is no telling what…
Nazis May Be Bad, But Tax Cuts Are Awesome!
How the “unsung” Republican resistance in the Trump administration really thinks Published in Commondreams.org Sept. `13, 2018 ( link to article) Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and then White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn attend an event to celebrate Congress passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with Republican members of the House and…
Neoconservative Comeback? They Never Left
Published in Loblog September 5, 2018 ( Link to article) Just as with entomology or botany, foreign policy analysis is largely an exercise in taxonomy: is some politician a realist or an idealist, a liberal internationalist or a national-interest proponent, an interventionist or an isolationist? Although thinking in categorical terms is a convenient way of…
Your Party or Your Country?
It shouldn’t be a difficult choice. Published in Washington Monthly August 15, 2018 (link to article) Imagine your house is on fire. Do you reach for a bucket of water or gasoline? That shouldn’t be an agonizing decision, but for American politicians these days, it is an open question, with a majority of them seemingly…
A Buckeye’s Lament: What Has Happened to Ohio and the Midwest?
Away from the large urban centers, the Midwest has transformed into a stronghold of derivative Southernism: country music and mores, religious fundamentalism, the cult of the good old boy, reactionary conservatism of a primitive type. Published on Thursday, August 09, 2018 by Common Dreams Link to article By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the photo taken at…