Category: Politics

North Korea, One More Time
by Robert Alvarez | Mar 18, 2019 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOn the eve of Trump’s first meeting with Kim Jong-un in May 2018, the nuclear policy veteran Robert Alvarez wrote with skepticism in The Spectator about the prospects for meaningful achievements from the summit process. A former senior policy advisor to the Secretary of the Energy Department who led DOE teams to secure weapons material […]

The Paris Peace Conference After 100 Years: Some Critical Lessons Not Learned
by Steven Pressman | Mar 12, 2019 | Economy, PoliticsWorld War I, the so-called “war to end all wars,” concluded in November 1918. The crucial question of the day changed abruptly—from how to wage war to how to make peace. Could the Allied powers prevent another war on the European continent? How would individual nations rebuild their economies? And who was going to pay […]

Trump’s Demagoguery
by Patricia Roberts-Miller | Mar 11, 2019 | PoliticsTo many people, Trump seems impossibly new and unique, unpredictable and outrageous, and his followers inexplicably oblivious to his dishonesty, irrationality, and incompetence. To scholars of rhetoric, it’s “Oh, yeah, this again.” Rhetoric—what Aristotle called “the art of finding the available means of persuasion”—is an old and universal art. As soon as we communicate with […]

The Heart and Mind of a Democrat
by Hamilton Fish | Feb 4, 2019 | Election 2020, PoliticsOn the last day of 2018, Elizabeth Warren became the first woman and the first of the presumed Democratic front-runners to signal her intent to run for president. “The anti-Warren narrative was written before the Massachusetts senator even announced,” observed Natasha Korecki in Politico. Anyone trafficking in analysis lite on the 2020 race—which at this […]

Ramona Ripston: Guardian of Liberties
by Danny Goldberg | Jan 27, 2019 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsOn November 3, one of my cherished mentors, Ramona Ripston, passed away at the age of 91. She had been the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California for 39 years, between 1972 and 2011. Her husband and soul mate Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who served on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
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