With the last elections from the 2022 midterms nearly completed, and Congress trapped in planning for the new year, it may be time to think a bit about the 2024 presidential election. After all, it is only two years away. Certainly the media will be turning to that election. The…

With many votes still being counted from the Nov. 8th midterm elections, many Democratic hearts are filled with joy and with relief. The widely anticipated “red wave” did not happen. Instead, although the votes across the country were surprisingly close, most of the feared acolytes of the Pied-Piper from Mar-a-Lago…

The 2022 midterm election is tomorrow. Let us think about what seems to be happening. The Republican Party including much of its leadership has gone off into the deep grass on the right side of the road, and still, many of their candidates seem to be doing well. The Democratic…

In just a few days the 2022 midterms will be held. Those elections will have a great effect on the future of Biden’s presidency. They also will help determine whether that presidency can extend past January of 2025. Those elections will be strongly effected by the sizable subset of the…

Soon after the presidential election of 2016, I wrote an article suggesting that in order to understand our elections we needed a kind of short-hand theory of human behavior. I argued that, from the moment of birth, each of us constantly try to reduce internal conflict (which will be experienced…

Vladimir Putin clearly began his invasion of Ukraine as a way to weaken the influence of what might be called the American system. In virtually every way, the political organizations in the United States and the Russian Federation are polar opposites. The writers of the Constitution at that famous convention…

During the last week it has become increasingly clear that Vladimir Putin’s effort to destroy Ukraine has become so obviously a failure that he is, in desperation, threatening the very people that he needs in order to continue in office. Referring to his domestic opposition as “Gnats” is hardly designed…

We are now near the end of the third week of Vladimir Putin’s attempt to place himself among Russia’s historic leaders by adding Ukraine back into Russia by military conquest. It is, as we know, not going well. …

People in the capitals of the world are in shock. The Russian Federation led by its authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin is in the seventh day of an all-out military invasion of Ukraine. The shock is not because we didn’t know that there were huge numbers of Russian troops surrounding Ukraine…