Sitemap - 2015 - Politics and History

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Fear and Bluster

Nativism in Europe and America

"J’accuse"

Fear and War, Freedom and Rights: A Bit of History

The GOP Nightmare

Rhetoric of Hate

The Radical Tradition in America

Turning Our Backs

Jews in 1939; Muslims in 2015

Paris and Presidential Politics

Anti-Intellectualism in American Politics

The First Casualty of Politics Is Truth*

Killing the Peace Process

Gotchas and Lies

Whiners and Winners

Still "The Stupid Party"

The Holocaust: A Crime, Not a Rhetorical Device

Who's an Outsider?

The Winner Is... The Democratic Party

And the GOP Odysseus Will Be?

Still Struggling for Voting Rights

"A well regulated Militia"

Apocalypse Not

John Boehner's Legacy

Speaker Boehner: Be Careful What You Ask For

"Waiting, waiting, waiting"

It's Debatable

For Party and Country

Huddled Masses

Whose Rights?

Despicable Donald

Trump: The End of the GOP?

This Is How It Starts

Pardon Me While I Hold My Nose

The Supreme Court and 2016

Make Every Vote Count

Nothing Changed

It's Always About Donald

Charles Koch, Comedian?

Happy 50th Birthday, Medicare

Absurd Rhetoric

Sports Arenas and Public Financing

Mr. Trump, Go Away

A Safer World

Trump the Opportunist

Moses and the Founding Fathers

The Not Quite Independent Independent Voter

Gutless

An Opening for the GOP — Perhaps

Slavery and the Rebel Flag

The American Way of Grief

The Pope and Republican Catholics

Obama and American Exceptionalism

Only Clinton Can Beat Clinton

Failed Experiments

Democrats Just Want to Have Fun, Too

Liberal — And Proud of It

A Brokered Convention?

It's Time for Math Class

Misuses of History

Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland vs. the United States

Jeb Bush's Bad Week

Democratic Vulnerability

Pamela Geller Is Despicable, But That's Her Right

The Chief Justice Says Politicians Should Serve the Rich

Republican Death Wish

The GOP, Foreign Policy, and the Legacy of Vietnam

The FBI Director, Poland, and the Holocaust

"The Centre Cannot Hold"

Beyond the Oratory

What If Booth Had Missed?

The Civil War: Then and Now

A Looming Constitutional Crisis

The GOP's Iowa Problem

Hot Air in New Jersey

Free Speech Served on a Plate

Obamacare = A Healthier America

Winning Ugly

Two Nations, Two Governments

And A Freshman Shall Lead Them?

No Blog

No Blog

No Blog

Insurance Havoc

Hate Mongers

Netanyahu Becomes a Republican

The Value of College

This Is Governing?

Context Matters: “The Taint of the Warrior”

Vaccines, Science, and the GOP

The Budget and 2016

What Would Herzl Think?

Culture Wars

Mr. Speaker: Do Your Job, Not His

A Tale of Two Politicians

Our Regressive Tax System

Some Ego

Funny Men

McConnell's Difficult Task

Scalise and the Politics of Race