What Happens When Politics Breaks Down
First of all, note that there is no question mark in my title. What happens when politics breaks down is what all of us in the United States are currently living through, in real time. In July 1997 I was an eyewitness to an actual, unambiguous coup d’etat in...Remembering America
Recently a reader of my book Home Free: An American Road Trip asked me: “I’d guess traveling around the country during the 2012 election would have been interesting, but do you wish you’d done the same for 2016???? đŸ˜€” It’s an intriguing,...“This is not Haiti” – or is it?
There will be a lot to say and write about this U.S. presidential election after the dust settles, if it ever does. For now, suffice it to say that it’s not really about Donald Trump. Trump is a savant, a performance artist whose medium is the rotten state of...Is it terrorism or a mass shooting?
The appalling mass shooting in Orlando early Sunday morning rips back open the festering confusion about what exactly is going on in today’s world and today’s America. Quickly the gunman was identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, an American of Afghan...Home Free: An American Road trip
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