Tony Greco

It’s too soon to know what kind of impact the Jan. 6 select Congressional committee will have on our politics, but no one should doubt that its work is critically important. It’s important because a credible and fairly complete documentation ...

I expect to be blogging in the next couple of days about the Jan 6 hearings, but an article in today’s NY Times so caught my attention that I can’t help commenting. It seems that the word “woman” is increasingly ...

As expected, the Radical Supremes have decided to trash Roe vs Wade. Even Bret Stephens has no trouble acknowledging that the impending decision isn’t conservative; it’s radical.  He might have added:  reactionary. Reactionary in the classical dictionary sense of moving “ ...

A federal judge has opined that Donald Trump probably committed crimes in seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.  It is very likely that the US Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland at some point will ...

A longstanding interest of mine is how the language we use when talking about politics can frame the discussion in ways that tend to skew the discourse in one way or another. In posts over the course of the years, ...

Finally, Biden said what needed to be said.  Donald Trump is engaged in a war of lies aimed at subverting American democracy in the service of his endlessly needy ego.  And, while nodding to the ideal of bipartisanship, Biden acknowledged ...

This isn’t really a post, just a nugget that I felt I had to share.  It’s from the ever-incisive Fintan O’Toole, writing in the current NY Review of Books about Britain’s egregious PM Boris Johnson.  Johnson, O’Toole tells us, is ...

Just a quickie today, mainly to pass on Thomas Edsall’s latest opinion piece, which provides an excellent summary of current academic scholarship on the fragile state of American democracy. I will just point to one poll result that Edsall cites ...

The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse of murder and reckless endangerment charges was probably correct under Wisconsin law.  The circumstances of the confrontations between Rittenhouse and his victims were ambiguous enough to create reasonable doubt that he was not acting in ...