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In an appropriate show of bipartisan unity, Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, called for unity and for Americans to open their hearts to each other at the memorial for the five police officers slain in Dallas. But ...

After events in Baton Rouge, LA, Falcon Heights, MN, and Dallas, TX, America—in particular white America—sorely needs to take stock of its current crisis in race relations. If it fails to do so, it risks falling into a cycle of ...

Even if you hate the Clintons, there's no denying the spectacular amount of charitable work the Clinton Foundation has done and the millions of lives it has improved, even saved. Despite a disinformation campaign, there is no doubt about the ...

Least among the problems posed by the UK's Brexit vote to leave the EU are the actual effects that will be felt in the UK; there is so much more at stake in the wider world, not least the general ...

Author's note: with a Bernie Sanders candidacy again looming over the Democratic Party and the country as a whole, here is part two of of my 2016 look at the ugly side of Sanders and many of his supporters, a ...

Violence and hate feed each other, as the violence in the Middle East shows; the West must be careful not to play into the cycle of violence and hate feeding each other, and whether or not we do is up ...

Author's note: as we are faced with the prospect of another Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, it is worth revisiting my look at the ugly side of Sandersism from 2016, this being the first of two parts. As Americans vote today ...

It's not a convincing argument that Trump picking a woman or a person of color will do much or anything to change how terrible he is doing with either women or people of color, but (Democrat?) Jim Webb does as ...

A detailed examination of Trump's foreign policy speech from a few weeks ago reveals how little substantive thought or ideas the candidate, the Republican Party, and it voters have when it comes to foreign policy. Contradictory and confusing, Trump showed ...

Without George W. Bush's presidency, it's hard to imagine Obama's 2008 victory; without both, it's hard to imagine Trump being so dominant in 2016. Regardless of whether Trump wins in November, his securing the Republican Party's nomination sets incredibly disturbing ...

In a year where it is hard to keep track of the stupendous volume of political insanity inflicted on and by the American people, let us give the utter shamelessness in self-promotion and desperation that was the Cruz-Fiorina “ticket” its ...

Author's note: as I write this while Bernie Sanders is considering a second presidential run, it should be remembered that he and a large portion of his supporters never did what I noted in my below piece they needed to ...