Sunday, July 26, 2020

Trump, Law Enforcement, and the Return of the Agent Provocateur

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Today'a blog appeared on July 26, 2020 in  the International Policy Digest. There are a lot of problems constitutionally and politica...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Trump, the Constitution, and Portland

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        There are lots of problems constitutionally and politically with President Trump sending federal forces into places such a   Port...
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Friday, July 17, 2020

Young Man Trump: Or the Portrait of a President as a Young Man

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Effective presidencies are all alike; ineffective presidencies are ineffective in their own ways. Recounting and explaining why the Trump ...

If the US Presidential Election Were Held Today

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If the US presidential election were held today polls suggest Joe Biden would be elected.  Not only would it be a landslide popular vote v...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Requiem for a Special Session: Why It Never Had a Chance to Succeed and the Next One will probably Fail too

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Why did the Minnesota Legislative Special session fail to produce police reform, a bonding bill, a Covid-19 bill, and more? That is the ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

George Floyd and the Final Fracturing of the Democratic Party, Labor, and Civil Rights Coalition

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            George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis is not simply about the death of one Black man. His death also ki...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Lesson of George Floyd: It’s Time to Put the Minneapolis Police Department Under State Control

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Minneapolis has a police problem.  It has a race problem.  We have known both of those facts for years.  The question is the cause and wh...
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