Politics

DEMOCRACY

America’s real divide

Learning democracy is as important as learning math

TRUMP ERA

2016 ELECTION

Stop crying about Hillary Clinton: she was a rotten choice

Some tips for liberals to avoid more election disasters

Causes of the disaster: The media

One cause of the disaster: dissin’ the white working class

And now some better news

How to make the Clinton campaign better than it seems

What this election is really about

How we got into our mess

Dealing with our mess

Why breaking the glass ceiling doesn’t work better

Don’t laugh, folks. Trump is real

Why I’m voting for Clinton anyway

When conventions were fun

Handling the Trump macho hustle

Some Trump questions

Election damage control

Getting ready for America’s worst presidential election

Some notes for Bernie backers

What the Bible says about Ted Cruz

How we got into this mess

Why the Democratic establishment should dump Clinton

The GOP uncivil war

The Trump-Clinton problem

The Democrats’ denials

Trump and fascism

What if we stop over-personalizing politics?

CLINTONS

Why is Hillary Clinton in so much trouble?

Hillary Clinton: Thriving in the gap between criminal law and political integrity

The story the media won’t cover

Ignored Clinton stories

The making of Bill Clinton

COMMON GROUND

Finding common groun

CONGRESS

Let’s amend the Senate

Real filibusters

COMMON GROUND
Finding common ground

CONSTITUTION

• The crime behind hope and change
• The coalition of the shilling

CORRUPTION

The corruption of corruption

Why you shouldn’t vote for a corporate executive

Getting conscience back into politics

How corruption has changed

How to bribe a politician without anyone noticing

When wrong becomes the norm

When bribery is called free speech

What’s a bribe?

The nature of truth

Bringing politics home

DEMOCRATS

• Facing the quarter century Democratic Party disaster
• The secret they won’t tell you
• Retrieving the Democrats’ reason for existence
• What if the Democrats acted like Democrats?

DEVOLUTION OF POWER

The virtues of decentralizing government

Building little republics in a collapsing empire

Local democracy as well as local lettuce

Crossover politics & the idology of scale

The issue that’s killing the left

ELECTIONS

Voting in the Mafia neighborhood called America

Judging political promises and records

How elections have been rigged

How Mad Men control our politics

END OF THE FIRST AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Post-First American Republic update
There’s no business like show business (excpt news business)
America becoming a corporate colony
Dismantling the Democrats
Elite emigration
Top rot
Blowin’ in the winds of change
The media: from watchdog to pet dog
The gradocracy
Drifting toward dictatorship
Obama and the American oligarchy
Notes from a lousy time

ETHNICITY & GENDER

A moment when America’s ethnic politics was different

Why being first may not be much

Leading the majority: how minorities change America

Barack Obama: The first what?

A Cooperative Commonwealth

Pickups for Dean

FASCISM

Hey, it’s okay to talk about fascism

Trump and fascism

The road to fascism gets shorter

The F-word we’re still afraid to use

Clues your country may be turning into a fascist state

Learning from Orwell & Mussolini

Giuliani, Jews, art & fascism

GOVERNMENT

America’s biggest criminals

Addiction to flawed systems outside of Washington

Whistleblowing in the winds of Washington

Lies of our times: You solve problems with new cabinet departments

GREEN PARTY
A word from the Green Party’s Big Mac Caucus
Why it’s easy being Green
Finding  greener  pastures and greener voters
Growing backyard Greens
Liberals and Greens
Rafting down the real mainstream
Growing Green

HEALTH

Obamacare: the good, the bad, the unpredictable & the dangerously unknown

HISTORY

Why we need history

Letter to Thomas Jefferson

IMAGE MANIPULATION

Factories of fame

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Vanna White

How television turned off politics

The politics of symbols

LIBERALS

• What real liberals were really like
• What life would be like without liberals
• What liberals have ignored for decades
• The issue liberals should dump
• The Texas liberal
• Confrontation without cure
• What real liberalism was like
• No one left but us
• Why liberalism collapsed
• The death of liberalism and what to do about it
• How to tell a progressive from a liberal
• How to tell if you’re still a liberal
• Talking about politics
• Liberals standing in the way of change
• The rise of liberal elite and the collapse of the republic
• My years as a liberal . . . and how I got fired
• Indentured liberals & independent progressives
• Life among the liberal fundamentalists
• Passive aggressive liberalism
• The rise of the liberal aristocracy
• Prigs in the lunchroom
• Liberalism is dead, time to move on

MEDIA

How television turned off politics

MIDDLE

Fox News and Karl Rove aren’t the real problem; it’s the extremist middle

Moderate extremism

OBAMA
Obama and the rise of the oligarchy
Enjoy Obama while you can
The secret they won’t tell you
Obama’s hat trick of failures
Obama’s 17 parking tickets

POPULISM

What a populist rebellion might look like

The real meaning of populism

PROGRESSIVES

How to jump start a progressive movement

it’s Bernie time. Enloy it.

Things progressives can do

What life would be like without progressive politics

PUBLIC WORKS

How some signs might change our politics

RELIGION

There is a religious test for high office and here it is

REPUBLICANS

The uncivil war continues

The second confederacy

The GOP secedes from history and progress instead of the union

SOCIALISM

A brief guide to avoiding socialism

SOUTH

The Civil War (Cont’d)

Dealing with the Confederate flag

The uncivil war that continues

GENERAL

• A few thoughts for those looking for a presidential candidate
• The non political side of politics
• Bringing politics home
• Washington moves from wreong to crazy
• A non political reason we don’t like politics
• The dysfunctional family called America
• Homo prevaricatus
• Foodies as a substitute for democracy
• Why you shouldn’t vote for a corporate executive
• Dealing with myth
• Music & politics: The sound of change
• The quiet storm: Blowing in the wind of cultural decay
• The politics of ethnicity, gender and zip codes
• The war of the terrified
• Bipolar politics
• A sinner’s view of born again politics
• A thinker’s guide to conspiracy theories
• The right to be jerks
• The party’s over
• A few things to do
• On the care and feeding of theories
• The dysfunction beat
• America’s most dangerous extremists: the muddled, myopic, miasmic middle
• Building little republics in a collapsing empire
• Is this what libertarianism leads to?
• Getting through the bad times
• Washington: Where smart people go to do stupid things
• Living in political madness
• What a populist rebellion might look like
• BRAIN DRAIN: THE HAZARDS OF GRAD SCHOOL POLITICS
• Ted Kennedy: The last respectable liberal
• The ghosts on the platform
• Bringing politics home
• On gadflies
• Can we bail out of narcissism
• Politics in the time of myth

POPULISM

• What populism is really about
• instant populism

PROGRESSIVE

• How to tell liberals and progressives apart
• What the hell do we do now?
• How to jump start the progressivement
• What life would be like without progressive politics

REPUBLICANS

• McCain is a mugwump, not a maverick
• Ted Cruz: Another member of the gradocracy
• The GOP’s uncivil war
• Of ghost dances and the young
• Our Reagan file
• How to tell radical Muslims from radical Republicans
• The Republican confederacy

RELIGION

• There is a religious test for high office and here it is

THIRD PARTIES

• History’s hints for third parties
• Third parties and presidential elections