Yeah, it’s a weak digression from MAGA. But the United States and democracy won’t last over the long haul without literal government interference to maintain a robust middle class. It’s not charity. It’s not “we can only help select Americans, so forget about the poor and screw over the billionaires.” It’s a pragmatic need because […]
Read More →The Orlando Sentinel occasionally publishes my comments on its opinion page as a letter to the editor. Today, for the second time, I received an anonymous letter via snail mail disagreeing. The “disagreeing” is fine. The “I know where you live” part not so much. It isn’t hard to find me: The Orlando Sentinel publishes […]
Read More →Americans – including 80% of those who support Donald J. Trump – will consider his tariff moves a failure before the end of 2025 if they remain unchanged. Democrats generally hate Trump; for Republicans it will be disappointment. Why? Over the past 60 years, average wages have gone down, but so has the price of […]
Read More →Writers want our words back. Politicians, advertisers and advocacy groups stole perfectly good words, twisted meanings and left us in an awkward position: We can’t talk about certain topics because we don’t have the tools to say what we mean. “Freedom of speech” doesn’t work without the “speech” part. “Fake news” is the latest. It […]
Read More →Originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, June 26, 2017, with a headline that sounded a tad more pro-Trump. A lot of people support Donald Trump, and here’s what liberals don’t get: Many, many people’s lives – largely but not exclusively in rural areas – have deteriorated over the past 20 years. In every political campaign, […]
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