Black Panther: Marvel’s Latest Movie Shows Why Institutions Matter
by Cliff Dunn First and foremost, this comes with a heavy spoiler alert: Reviewing the messaging in Black Panther is almost impossible to do without revealing plot elements. If...
Regulating the Poor is a Bad Idea
by D.J. McGuire There was a time – dare I say, it might have been as late as two years ago – when I would have applauded the recent...
Wave Goodbye to the Wave Election
by Kevin Kelton Though the makings of a democratic wave election in the midterms seem apparent – enthusiasm, leading indicators, a highly divisive president – one key...
White Supremacy and Vladimir Putin: They’re the same problem
by D.J. McGuire The two issues regarding the Trump Administration that have frightened more Americans than anything else seem to be polar opposites: his fealty to Vladimir Putin’s regime...
Nuclear Memo War
by Kevin Kelton By approving the reckless release of the politically-explosive Devin Nunes memo, President Trump has now demonstrated that he cannot be trusted to heed urgent warnings from...
Stronger Together: Lessons Learned from 2016
by Kevin Kelton Scholarly books will be written about the 2016 election. And like everything in history, from the Civil War to the cause of world wars, there will...
The Russia Show
by Kevin Kelton The other day on MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” HuffPost Editorial Director Howard Fineman said that he doesn’t think Special Counsel Robert Mueller will be...
My Alabama Blunder
by Kevin Kelton On election night, with 60% of the vote counted and Roy Moore leading Doug Jones by 8 percentage points, I declared in Open Fire that it...
A Tale Told By an Idiot: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
by D.J. McGuire I chose to hold my tongue at first, when word got out that Donald Trump had made it official policy to declare Jerusalem the Israeli capital...
I Guess I’m the Last Supply-Sider
by D.J. McGuire There was a time when supply-side economics was a serious challenger to the Keynesian failures of the 1970s, and a necessary corrective to the assertion that...
A Full-Court Press Against the GOP Tax Plan
by Kevin Kelton It’s tax reform time in the U.S. Congress. So let’s talk basketball. “Excuse me?” you say? Yes, basketball. The GOP is using a classic swing offense to...
A Salem Witch Hunt of Modern Times
by Kevin Kelton I have a feeling this is going to be a very loud week and month in the world of public sexual harassment claims. With the latest...
Handicapping 2020 in 2017
by Kevin Kelton Everyone’s favorite political game is handicapping the 2020 Democratic primary race. So here’s my humble take. While he’s not my first choice, my instincts tell me...
A National Boycott for Gun Safety
by Kevin Kelton Dozens of high school students in Florida went to their state capitol this week demanding action on sensible gun safety legislation. Nothing happened. Dozens more have...