Friday, June 29, 2018

Neo-Liberalism and the Retreat of Democracy

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This blog originally appeared in Counterpunch . Democracy across the world is under siege. This according to the latest Freedom House r...
Friday, June 22, 2018

The Trump Presidency and Foreign Policy

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Often the best predictor of a new US president’s foreign policy is to look at his predecessor.  The strength and bipartisan nature of the A...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Less than Fundamental: The Myth of Voting Rights

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The Supreme Court’s recent Husted v. Philips Randolph Institute upholding Ohio’s voter purge law and Minnesota Voter Alliance v. Mansky st...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Trump, Kim and the Art of the (Non) Deal

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Note:  I will be in South Korea in July attending and speaking at two conferences.  One is on the 70th anniversary of the South Korean Const...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Minnesota DFL Meltdown: Why it matters, why it is overdue, why it is mostly good

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The meltdown of the Minnesota DFL was entirely predictable.  It is  also overdue and mostly good.  The roots of  this implosion  can be loc...
Monday, June 4, 2018

The DFL Gamble: Competing Gubernatorial Campaign Strategies

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Should the DFL run to the left and mobilize young and urban voters mostly in the Twin Cities Metro area to win the governorship, or go with...
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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Parkland and the political coming of Generation Z

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This blog originally appeared in The Hill . Does Generation Z, Americans born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, look at politics dif...