Listening to this podcast, you can discern that I am not a fan of Donald Trump. His approach to ethics, decency, business practices and bruising politics is an anathema to me. So, to the extent th

Why do politicians lie so often? There must be a reason for it. And why do we not demand better of them and ask the media to do a better job of holding them to account? One could argue that, reall

Many presidents have attempted to influence the actions of the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI for political means. I am old enough to remember the Saturday Night Massacre, as it was called, in R

Usually we define vigilantes as the barbarians at the gate who want to disrupt the order of things. What if the state itself becomes that disruptor bringing the chaos not protecting us from it? Two

Its never happened before where a presidential candidate promises to throw sand in the gears of a modern democracy in order to bend all levers of government to his will. Sure, we have had much rumin

We have had nearly fifty years of wage stagnation, unaffordable health care, low social mobility, predatory mortgage practices, and inflamed class and race resentments. Thats the same period in wh

It is somewhat dizzying to think about the radical effect this version of the Supreme Court, the Roberts Court, has had on American life. From the curtailing of voting rights to abortion, affirmativ

This weeks two podcasts feature women journalists writing about subjects that put them at potential risk as they uncover abuses and actions that most in our society are shielded from. Alice Driver,

There is a line, albeit it a bit curvy, from Charlottesville in 2017 to the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The passageways from one event to the other may be found on the dark web whe

Labor Unions had immense economic and political power in the post WWII era through the early 1970s. In the 1950s a third of all private sector workers were members of unions. For a host of reasons