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Though originally published in the fall of 2013, my piece on how partisan redistricting gerrymandering was the root cause for much of the dysfunction in Washington is just as relevant today, if not more so, as it was then. January ...

Today’s hearing was historic, but not nearly as big a deal as it was hyped up to be, at least in terms of the real-world political effect. Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse June 8, 2017 By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter ...

Trump's removal of James Comey was a blatantly transparent attempt to protect himself from Comey's active investigation of his team's ties to Russia and is thus tyrannical in nature. This is a moment of truth for America, the first tipping ...

Trump is still a danger to America and the world. But if he exercises American power in a way that will help save lives and give a brutal tyrant and his backers pause in their relentless, murderous assault on the ...

The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) conducted another interview with me (see previous one here) a few weeks ago about both what both Americans and the world can expect from Trump, and about U.S. relations with Iran in the Trump ...

For Many white Americans, a candidate of color who stays away from focusing on racial issues or from pushing whites on such issues (Obama) is fine, but a candidate, white or otherwise, who makes racial issue major parts of her ...

Author's note: sure, I was wrong, but I was closer than most and every state I did call I called correctly except for Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, yet I also noted Clinton's real vulnerabilities in those three states (categorizing them ...

FBI Director James Comey's decision to comment on a new development in the Clinton e-mail server investigation—one which has not yielded any new specific wrongdoing but merely speculates about the possibility of what may or may not be in unreviewed ...

Trump's flirtatious waltz with hints and threats of political violence cannot be ignored and should not be underestimated. Apart from echoing some of America's own worst episodes in the South after the Civil War, such dangerous dancing brings to mind ...

Author's note: I was obviously wrong here. And yet, not so much, as there were multiple last minute game-changers: the two Comey interventions and the cumulative effects of the WikiLeaks/Russia Podesta leaks, in addition to the overblown media coverage of ...

Anyone looking for reassurance from that vice-presidential debate, especially after seeing Trump in two debates, would still have seen one of our two parties (the Republican Party) denying reality and denying responsibility for cultivating vile forces in American Politics. They ...

Author's note: even before Trump won, it was clear that America was damaged and in trouble, that certain trends that had exploded during the 2016 election cycle were terrible indicators of where we were as a nation even if Trump ...