Published Jan. 22, 2017 in the Washington Monthly. ( link to article) In his first official performance as press secretary for a new president barely 24 hours after his inauguration, Sean Spicer delivered a performance that would have made Baghdad Bob look like Diogenes. Looking sour and petulant, Spicer lashed out at the media for…

Published in TheConsortiumnews  (link to article) Exclusive: Most Wall Street bigwigs sided with Hillary Clinton in 2016 but now have adroitly shifted affections to Donald Trump whose populist rhetoric is giving way to another super-rich bonfire of the vanities, explains Mike Lofgren. During the 2016 campaign, pundits claimed that Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies would bring…

Published in The Atlantic (link to article) In boosting Trump and funding fringe parties in Europe, Russia has helped construct a new kind of “comintern”—and it’s even more effective than the Cold War version. One of the double-edged aspects of being a writer is that you can become known in all kinds of unlikely circles….

 By The New York Times  (Link to article) What We Saw During Tonight’s Debate   How Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton looks to Times Opinion writers — before, during and after. Comment 2016-09-26T23:04:32-04:00 September 26, 2016 11:04 PM ET How Do Voters Judge the Candidates on Truth? By Mike Lofgren Lyndon Johnson lied about Vietnam; Richard…

Thursday, 15 September 2016  Truthout   Link to article The death of film director Michael Cimino in July of this year stimulated a great deal of commentary on the concept of the flawed genius. His obituaries typically focused on his film Heaven’s Gate, which has become a byword for bloated, self-indulgent, glacially paced, but visually arresting…

Published in BillMoyers.com (Link to article) History may not repeat itself exactly, but there’s something eerily familiar about the DNC email leaks. Citizens of other countries are worried about presidential candidate Donald Trump’s friendly rhetoric toward Vladimir Putin. Kestutis Girnius, associate professor of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science in Vilnius said this…