Part Two: Populism under Trump and the Erosion of Democracy. This created the environment for the rise of the populism that threatens to...

Part One: Setting the Scene for the Rise of Trump’s Populism in 2016. The year 1981 separates two very different post WWII Americas....

See also my essay “Voting in America” dated August 20, 2020 for background material in this blog. The 2020 presidential election, which...

Yesterday, as I was listening to the results of the Georgia Senate elections, I was stunned to hear about the pro-Trump mob assault on...

The right to vote is at the heart of any democratic republic. It is important to note that the US Constitution does not contain an...

There is an on-going, often passionate debate over whether the electoral college system should remain in effect or whether it should be...

Preface to this commentary that is dated July 24, 2020. In January 2021, the US passed a law which requires federal military and...

Original Context. Under the first government of the United States (US), the Articles of Confederation, states were required to maintain...

The President is back in the news again with tariffs and a high school student, who had participated in my high school model UN on our...