Huge numbers of Americans think the United States is the greatest country in the world, or even that it is the best that has ever existed. That may or may…

Some commenators characterized political happenings of the past week as "block buster" news as Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment…

As the sociologist Max Weber observed, the fates of human beings are not equal. People differ in their states of health, wealth, and social status.Those…

There has been some confusion over, or perhaps an intentional perversion of, the meaning of the “Black Lives Matter” movement in America.Opponents have…

Americans learned early on that Donald Trump would have a much different relationship with the free press and the facts than any previous president. Of…

When Donald Trump launched his 2016 campaign for president, he announced that he was doing so because he wanted to “Make America Great Again.” When,…

Have individuals who wear the red cap with the letters MAGA stamped on it and representing Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great…

A political science professor at Yale named Milan Svolik is an expert on authoritarian rule. In a recent publication on polarization and democracy, he…

President Trump does not appear strong politically as we move toward the 2020 presidential campaign. One indication of his weakness is that he has never…

We know from history that extremist demagogues emerge at times in all societies, even in healthy democracies. We have had our share of them in the United…