Category: Articles

In a brazen attempt to undermine the Russia investigation, Nunes is sullying the FBI before moving on to defame other government agencies. Published in Washington Monthly ( Link to article) As the Republican attempt to derail the Trump-Russia investigation blindly lurches from corrupt conspiracy to slapstick farce, the public is in danger of losing the…

NDAs have become the legal workaround for rich people like Donald Trump to prevent exposure of their potential misdeeds. Published in Washington Monthly ( Link to article) Almost lost amid each successive round of shocking, but unsurprising news about our president has been the fact that his lawyers are yet again enforcing non-disclosure agreements against revelations…

Disaster lies not in Trump, but in the conservative dream fulfilled.  Published in Washington Monthly Jan. 3, 2018 link to article Any examination of American conservatism in the age of Trump runs smack up against the question, whose conservatism? Who gets to define it? A typical analysis is to name the supposed essential characteristics of…

America has become a laboratory to test whether its institutions can weather the present flood of Republican “expertise,” writes a former career congressional staff member. For the GOP, Incompetence Is a Feature, Not a Flaw Published in BillMoyers  November 18, 2017 ( link to article) It has been said that Newt Gingrich is “a dumb…

 Published in Washington Monthly 11/16, 2017 link to article Remember Benghazi? How could you forget? There were nine separate investigations into the attack, and dozens of hearings. The major one, a House Select Committee investigation chaired by Trey Gowdy, cost $7 million and produced nothing of substance on the incident. There was so much interminable blather that…