Tony Greco

In its final round of decision-making for the season, the Supreme Court exhibited some predictable alignments and some surprising ones. To take the predictable ones first: the Court decided that closely-held corporations like Hobby Lobby could on religious grounds refuse ...

Maine’s Senator Susan Collins is a dinosaur.  She’s one of the tiny band of moderate Republicans remaining in Congress.  (There is a significant number of traditional conservative Republicans who now often get mislabeled “moderate”—everything is relative, after all.)  She’s up ...

Commenting on Eric Cantor’s defeat, Newt Gingrich claimed that it showed “…there’s a large element of America that wants a fight.”   The “fight” he’s talking about, of course, is the fight against the threat posed by the forces of Big ...

I haven’t been writing about the Republicans much lately because I don’t like repeating myself and there hasn’t been all that much to say that I hadn’t already said.  Still, I can’t let pass without some comment the stunning news ...

Once upon a time the reigning paradigm in America political science was something called “democratic pluralism.”  The basic idea was that whatever its flaws, the US political system managed in a reasonably fair way to reflect the interests of most ...

In my last post I suggested that the apparent inevitability of a Hillary Clinton presidential nomination shouldn’t be met with acquiescence or resignation by committed progressives.   Yes, she can get the nomination if she wants it, and yes, her election ...

One of my favorite commentators on Middle East issues, MJ Rosenberg, has offered some ruminations on the future of American politics that accord fairly closely up to a point with my own evolving views.  In an earlier post (11/21/13) I ...

I’m reprinting the following from The Hill website.  No further comment by me is necessary, but I can’t help noting that Gingrich is widely regarded as the intellectual heavyweight among leading Republican politicians. Last month, on CNN’s “Crossfire,” which he co-hosts, ...