Year: 2016

Back on February 15th, I told you that the Republicans would never confirm a replacement for Antonin Scalia. This wasn’t rocket science, but it wasn’t common wisdom at the time. Eight days later, the Republican...

The George W. Bush candidacy and presidency represented a shift to the right in republican politics, that caused people like Vermont senator Jim Jeffords to leave the republican party. As the GOP has marched further rightward,...

The Republicans have a strange emotional attachment to keeping the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future. As an explanation, I kind of discount actual fear that the inmates might escape from a super maximum...

A year ago, the late Andrew Kohut examined how the Democratic Party has drifted to the left in recent years. In some ways, this is a departure (as on support for gay marriage) and in some ways it is a return (“liberal...

Reading up on events leading to the Europe imploding due to the refugee crisis from the Middle East through Turkey and the upcoming British referendum on the Brexit: the UK vote to leave the Eurpean Union. I’m all for...