25 Jul Icebergs and Eisenhower
“America is facing a disproportionate number of existential threats. They can’t be successfully navigated without common agreement that they exist...
22 Jul SPECIAL REPORT: COVID Realities
“Health in America, like almost everything else, has become politicized.” Instead of being a "United" States of the vaccinated and COVID-recovered, America is suffering through a new wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. Importantly, although COVID-19’s Delta variant is increasingly disrupting Blue States, it is...
18 Jul Heating Up Cold War II
“Nationalism can build a bridge across the partisan divide.” – The Lonely Realist China has a plan, a well-thought-out plan, for absorbing Taiwan and, in doing so, taking a significant step towards empire-building and global hegemony … and exposing the weakness of America's democracy and military. ...
11 Jul Facebook’s Antitrust Problem
The best way for America’s government to address illegality and provide an effective defense against predatory practices is by enacting laws that provide for Americans’ protection. Protecting its citizens is a cornerstone of American democracy, which is why America has so many consumer protection, investor...
04 Jul Regulatory Rigor Mortis: Raising the Dead
"Overlapping laws and regulations hurt America. Simplification and reconciliation should be a bipartisan objective." – The Lonely Realist A distinctive feature of democratic government is that rules and regulations are relatively easy to add … and virtually impossible to adjust revise improve dilute, yet alone eliminate. ...