Tony Greco

Yes, Tuesday’s election results were indeed a disaster, but I’m going to start with some optimistic observations. These elections took place under a set of circumstances that could easily be inoperative a year from now. Joe Biden and the Democrats ...

Is this or is this not remarkable: Noam Chomsky signing onto a political declaration co-authored by Bill Kristol.  Chomsky, radical left critic of capitalism and American foreign policy.  Kristol, neo-conservative warmonger.  In common cause. The cause is American democracy, which ...

It is unusual for me to read an opinion piece in a leading US newspaper that is as long as this one and find practically nothing to disagree with.  It is all the more unusual when the writer is somebody ...

The Supreme Court is a political institution.  It makes major, politically contentious policy decisions, and it makes them along partisan lines.  These observations should be non-controversial, but they weren’t always obviously true.  Earl Warren was a Republican politician, but he ...

Longtime readers may recall that I have devoted any number of posts to the question of Donald Trump’s peculiar relationship—or, rather, lack of relationship—to the truth.  The general question I’ve posed is whether Trump actually believes the torrent of falsehoods ...

Twenty-nine per cent of Americans believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Similar proportions believe that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was mostly peaceful and law-abiding or was staged by anti-Trump forces to make him look bad. ...

For many years—decades, even—the American right-wing has been waging culture wars, stoking the fears and resentments of white, Christian Americans over issues like abortion, race, crime, immigration, guns and gays.  The idea is to displace economic issues, on which the ...

It’s gruesome, but if you can stand it, you really should watch the NY Times video compilation of the Jan. 6 insurrectionist riot.  It’s the most riveting 40 minutes of action on a small or big screen that you’re likely ...

I’ve been saying for years that Donald Trump and the party/cult he commands represent a serious threat to American democracy as we know it.  Of course, I’ve been far from alone—my view of the Trumpist threat is widely shared not ...