Monday, December 24, 2018

Federal Budgeting 101: Making Sense of the Government Shutdown

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So why has the United States  federal government shutdown? The simple answer is that the federal government cannot spend money unless it i...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

Unhinged: The Predictable and Overdue Collapse of the Trump Presidency

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Aren’t we where many of us always thought it would be when it came to the Trump presidency? Not quite half way through his presidency it i...
Friday, December 7, 2018

The Case for Decriminalizing Marijuana in Minnesota–The Right and Wrong Reasons for It and What it Means to Do So

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Is it time to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Minnesota?  The answer may be yes, but when and how it is done in Minnesota is ...
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Thursday, December 6, 2018

Partisanship and Petty Politics in Wisconsin

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The power grab by Wisconsin Republicans to limit the incoming authority of the Democratic Attorney General and Governor is about pettiness...
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Reflections on the Future Survival of the Donald Trump Presidency

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The Trump presidency has always been a rocky and contentious one, but recent and coming events will try its soul in ways that have not pr...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

When Republicans Were Progressives–A Story of a Different Party and a Different Era

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Minnesota is a DFL state.  Republicans are conservatives.  These are assumed to be two political truths.  Yet both are subject to qualificat...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Sheryl Sandberg, Nancy Pelosi, and the Suburbanization of the Democratic Party

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By now as all the post-2018 midterm elections have made clear, the Democratic Party’s blue wave was driven in larger part by female voter...