Examining the Assault on the American Ideal

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The Pool as Metaphor

In a week that entailed a supposed ceasefire in a far off war, some major Supreme Court decisions on immigration authority, and passage of a bipartisan housing bill (that the President failed to sign) it should be surprising that the most reported story of the week was about the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. More importantly, the…

The Upside Down MOU

Once upon a time, in a time not long ago, wars were fought between nations and the winners of the wars generally extracted benefits from the victory. Those benefits might include land, money, peace, demilitarization, regime change, etc. But in the Trump Administration, we live in the upside down (without the scary aggressive beasts of…

Indifference

The most prominent theme of the current leadership in Washington has become clear – indifference. No matter what the plight of average Americans, this leadership (from the Trump Administration to the majority leadership in Congress) has consistently shown itself to be deaf and blind. Despite polls showing dissatisfaction with the war, with inflation, with government…