Sitemap - 2024 - Against the Grain

Jimmy Carter Retires the "Trophy"

The Continuing Crisis: Predictions for 2025

New Social Security Bill is a Warning to D.O.G.E.

RFK Jr.'s Challenges to "Make America Healthy Again"

Three Steps to Fixing the FBI: Interview with Whistleblower Coleen Rowley

The 51st State of Canada, Eh? No Thanks.

Pardon Me, Some Observations

The J6 Pardon Process -- What Might We Expect?

Should Low Tax States Subsidize High Tax States?

Why Our Nation Should Give Thanks

12 thoughts about the Trump Cabinet

US Senator Fred Harris (D-OK), RIP

Is Elphaba MAGA? A "Wicked" Review

NO Recess Appointments

The Case for Matt Gaetz (Not from Me)

Make Social Security Broke Again

Stupid Boomlets for Senate GOP Leader

The Gen-X Election

10 Reasons You Didn't See This Coming

A Few Predictions, Observations, and Your 2024 Election Icon

Democrats, Not Republicans, Are Responsible for Post-Election Violence

"Double Haters" and The Benefit of Competitive Partisan Campaigns

Cheating in the 2024 Election

Are You a Cannibal (Voter)? And Too Exuberant?

How to (Really) Protect Our Democracy

A Good Weekend for Journalism

Master Interview

October Surprises

Make Fries Great Again?

"Do You Hear Yourself?"

The Controllers vs. the Uncontrollable

Kamala, Meet the Indigenous Stand Watie

A Follow Up

Should People of Faith "Do Politics?"

The US Senate: On the Ballot, Too

A Master Class

Where's the 18th Airborne Infantry?

How to Open Pandora’s Box: Kill The Filibuster.

Today's Most Consequential Leaders, Good and Bad

Change Your Media Filters

Political Violence is Back, and Reparations are Here

Philip Howard

Ben Franklin is Visited

Civility's Biggest Challenge: The Truth

Second Thoughts

No Minds Were Changed

Principled Patriots or Useful Idiots?

"Misinformation" and Censorship on the Ballot

Reagan Movie, A Review

This One Hurts

A Bad Day for Hockey, Trump & Harris

Housing for . . . ?

What to Make of the Trump-RFK Alliance

For What People?

Not Like You and Me

Polls, Commies, and Crowds

Harris Runs Against Herself. Will It Work?

A Style vs. Substance Election

Stolen Valor?

Weird vs. Stupid

Please Don't Pick Me

The "Danger" of Harris Choosing Shapiro

Kamala Calls Barack

Democrats End Democracy

Reality Check Time

Trump's Dan Quayle?

Now What?

Language Sherpas At It Again

The Power - and Folly - of Hate

Senator Jim Inhofe, RIP

Rethinking "First Past the Post"

Biden Goes Northam

This July 4th, Celebrate SCOTUS

You're Stuck with Joe.

What Was That?

Senate GOP Debates Its Future

"Unsafe Sleep"

"Juneteenth" Nuance

Do Vice Presidential Candidates Matter?

Charles Robbins and His Brothers Were the Lucky Ones. So Are We.

Why Did I Vote For Trump in 2016? Why Am I Voting For Him Again?

George Floyd vs. Donald Trump

Stalinizing our Legal Sytem

The Rule of Law: Why It Matters

The Electoral College: What If?

Memorial Day: Memories and Traditions

"Useless and Overpaid Lobbyists"

Best Commencement Speeches of '24

The Case for National Election Reforms

High-Stakes Debate

The Statues, They Are "a-Changin"

Slavery, Abortion, Truth, and Morality

Another Senate Precedent Democrats Will Regret

Helping Trump with Gettysburg

OJ Simpson Meets His New Roommate

Saying Goodbye to The Greatest Generation

Leave John Foster Dulles Alone

Repeating History

150 Days?

Dementia On Display?

Making Sense of "The Bus"

"Disproven," A Review. It Surprises.

Consequences of Cannabis Worsen

End the Spectacle, a Reprise

Taming Energy Hogs and Saving the "Grid"

God Save - and Restore - the Senate Filibuster

Hate of the Union

Reprise: Daylight vs. Standard Time. Pick One.

"Braver Angels" Clip Their Wings

How Senators Choose Their Leader: Part II

How Senate Leadership Elections Work: Part I

Thanks, Leader Mitch McConnell

The Best People and Places to Lobby: Part V

State Lobbying: Part IV of a Series

The Law: Part III on Lobbying

Tools of the Trade, Part II on Lobbying

Do Lobbyists Run Congress? Part I of a Series

How to Genuinely Rate Presidents

Do Special Elections Predict Anything?

Shrinkflation, Thy Name is Bidenflation

Good News for Republicans

What Just Happened?

Expel US Rep. Ilhan Omar

Understanding The Left on Immigration

Hitting Close to Home

Food and the Death of Common Sense

Razor Wire Economics

Should "Closed" Primary Elections be Forced Open?

How Will The Presidential Race Play Out?

The Road to Milwaukee

I Have a Nightmare

Democracy Actually Is On the Ballot.

The Emerging Republican Majority

Return to Normalcy