The Sources of Denialism
There used to be a time when non-negligible numbers of Republican politicians recognized the reality of climate change and the need for public policy to combat it. That time is long past. Today it’s very hard to find a Republican ...
Read MoreDemocracy wins in Wisconsin
The Democratic challenger has defeated the incumbent Republican in an election for a seat on the Wisconsin State. Supreme Court. This is big, great news, and it has national significance, for two reasons. First, Wisconsin is a critical swing state, ...
Read MoreHow vulnerable is Biden?
Eons ago, when it looked like there was still a contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, I tackled the question of whether Biden or Sanders would be the stronger candidate. I concluded in favor of the former. One reader, however, ...
Read MoreUniquely Unfit
At some point in this pandemic it will be possible, based on accumulated data to date, to estimate the cost in human lives of the weeks of indifference, denialism and delay displayed by the grotesquely inadequate man in the White ...
Read MoreTrump’s Choice
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF” So says Donald Trump. And, strictly speaking, it is a reasonable assertion. Shutting down the US economy to deal with the virus means imposing a lot of hardship—psychological as ...
Read MoreFauci on the Tightrope
Dr. Anthony Fauci has garnered a lot of hopeful admiration as the voice of science in an administration that disdains politically inconvenient facts, scientific or other. The poor guy has to walk a tightrope. He knows that the president of ...
Read MoreWhat next for Sanders and Biden?
Sanders and Biden should get together. It would be best for Sanders to initiate the meeting, in which he will propose to drop out of the race for the nomination in return for certain considerations from Biden. What those considerations ...
Read MoreWhat’s Happened?
I don’t recall any presidential primary season that has seen such a dramatically rapid reversal. Three weeks ago, Bernie Sanders was the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination. One week ago, Joe Biden, risen from the dead, was the clear ...
Read MoreAnd then there were two
So, barring an act of God, it is now certain that the Democratic nominee for president will be either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders. Biden is the new front runner, but the race is far from over. Which of these ...
Read MoreDemocrats’ Knives Out
I think I’m on safe ground in saying the Nevada melee had to be the most combative of the Democrats’ debates thus far this primary campaign, but my attention span gave out about half way through, so I can’t offer ...
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