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There is (still) no “scandal” here. It turns out Hillary and her people were pretty careful. The focus has been on Clinton simply because she is a controversial figure running to be president, a focus which has distracted from the ...

Rather than signify any beginning of weaponizing foreign policy and national security in politics, the 9/11 attacks simply marked the next stage in the progression of Republicans breaking a general Cold War trend of bipartisanship and moderation when it came ...

Yes, we can blame the poor Zika response on Republicans, which has put far more Americans at risk than necessary, risk that for too many Americans not yet born will mean lifelong mental defects. The GOP’s willingness to play politics ...

Ultimately, the information revealed in the DNC e-mail hacks (by the Russian government!) "shockingly" revealed that people who were staffers for the Democratic Party's leadership organization didn't like Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont who made a career in ...

Author's note: I noted during the 2016 RNC in the below article that the dysfunctional and incoherent disaster of a convention was the best indicator yet of how Trump would govern if elected. Suffice to say, this piece have been ...

The data on police shootings from recent years is clear and overwhelming with what it tells us: 1.) police haven't been this safe since the 1870s (not a typo: yes, that is the 19th century), 2). far more Americans are ...

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 ...

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 ...