“Now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!” Those were Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s last public words, spoken shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Senator Kennedy had just claimed victory over his Democratic rival, Eugene McCarthy, in the hotly contested California primary. […]

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“Fight, fight, fight!” These were the words of a bloodied Donald Trump as Secret Service agents helped him to his feet yesterday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, immediately after an assassination attempt in which one person in the crowd was killed instantly and two were critically wounded. The former president was struck in the […]

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One day after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ignominious Presidential immunity decision, the New York Supreme Court meted out accountability and formally disbarred Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, for violating several core tenets of the professional code of conduct with the aim of undermining public confidence in the American electoral process. In 2020 American […]

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These hot, early summer days have brought with them a sudden torrent of fast-breaking political news. Was Biden’s poor showing in the debate an off night, is he failing, can he govern. How will our republic fare following the Supreme Court’s decision granting full immunity to the president for official actions, and how will this […]

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As America celebrates the 248th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the threat to the survival of our long-running democratic republic from political and religious extremism is palpable. Former Senator Gary Hart offers a timely reflection on the enduring principles ingrained in the charter of the new nation.   Many people of a certain age […]

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