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It was a lifetime ago that cousin Tom Murray and I grew up in Storm Lake, Iowa, during those halcyon years of the late 1950s and 60s. Tom’s Dad, Coach John Murray, was a teacher and coach with St. …
In her new book “Without Precedent,” ex-Washington insider Lisa Graves quickly lets readers know why she is no fan of John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. …
Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, chose to not speculate when asked what damage Donald Trump might be doing to the U.S. Constitution. But, in his …
When future U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich faced being drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968, an Army recruiter tried desperately to add one inch to his height. The recruiter wanted Reich to …
Fighting America’s War on Science and Scientists
Thomas Piketty’s “Nature, Culture and Inequality,” weighing in at a slim 82 pages, packs quite a wallop for its size. Originally presented as a series of lectures, this “comparative and …
Like many progressives, I’ve retreated a bit since the November election. I’m not watching much tv news and I don’t bird-dog all the headlines. I keep up on current events, but don’t obsess …
Watching season two of “Sprint” on Netflix recently, American sprinter Noah Lyles says from the 2024 Paris Olympics that the COVID pandemic is over. For him, it’s the place and time to run fast …
The late István Mészáros analyzes political theories from the ancient Greek philosophers forward in “Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State,” edited and introduction by John Bellamy Foster …