Whoever is president is a symptom, not the disease. If we were able to wave a magic wand and make Trump go away tomorrow, and replace him with Clinton, would it change anything? Would the United States stop interfering in…
This is, by all measures, a frightening time for American journalism. The press has a legitimate reason to fear a Trump presidency. Trump has expressed disdain for reporters, has called them “among the most dishonest human beings on earth.” He…
Was the future revealing itself to us 45 years ago? Consider this passage from the 45 year old film, Network, about who REALLY had and has and always will have the Power in America and around the planet.Written by Paddy…
“The horror…the horror.” —Joseph Conrad Last Monday evening, while more than a hundred million American masochists gathered gloomily around their flat-screens and “devices,” for no better reason than to confirm just how deeply our country’s moral compass has spun out…
I am so sick of 2016. It’s two years away yet, but the Cable News talking heads and internet political forecasters just will not keep their Presidential predictions at bay. Regardless of the midterm elections this Fall, the crumbling Domestic…