Category: American Politics

Well, there goes the Biden Administration.

America in 2021 will experience a battle between the builders and the holders. Where builders believe their main challenge is to make better versions of everything, holders struggle to keep things the same, or even tear down changes made by builders that alter the customs they cherish.

Exactly how COVID-19 will impact our lives and change America in the coming months is a mystery, but it seems like a certainty that beyond our economy, activities we take for granted are going to change.

Every week has been a trial. One more outrage, one more impossible lie, one after another. At first it was the prevarications themselves that were too much, but then came the sheer rush of them. Then they congealed into hordes of fatuous behaviors committed by crews of shameless idiots powered by their own disconnection to reality.

The Senate won’t convict.

Dear Trump-supporting friend, I gotta talk to you about Trump, because this last week was a doozy.

I’m betting on a recession coming in the next year or so and the overall economy lacks padding if a downturn comes.

If we admit that one group of Americans are second class citizens, we admit not everyone will achieve the American Dream.

Long before he was elected President, on January 23, 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump put his finger on the most defining aspect of his power: He can do anything he wants, and the voters and elected officials who support him will never waiver in their support.

https://youtu.be/gWvukNpDjBk Melissa Conyears-Ervin, Chicago's Treasurer-Elect comes to the stage cheered by her supporters on Election Night, April 2, 2019. She might have done a funky line dance with her sorority...

Embed from Getty Images There’s truism about politics: campaigning and governing are totally different skills, and just because you’re good at one, doesn’t mean you’re good at the other. Campaigning...

The Statue of Liberty and downtown Manhattan. (Credit: EAS ART/Flickr) A successful man in his early 40’s, working in an industry he loves, Faisal Siddiqui is the first to tell...

I”m pretty sure here will be runoff elections on April 2 for mayor, but it’s almost impossible to tell who’s going to make it to round two.

Embed from Getty Images Dear Governor-Elect J.B. Pritzker, I write to you with serious concern about our divided state. While Democrats have won a tremendous victory in Illinois, winning not...

Embed from Getty Images I was raised in a decidedly left-wing family. My mother and father both marched on Washington in 1963 with Martin Luther King, Jr., and when I...

[caption id="attachment_167" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Capitol Hill sunset, September 14, 2014. Source: Thomas Hawk/Flickr[/caption] Congressional Republicans are not going to impeach Donald Trump. Let’s be straight up about that. Polling continually...