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The Earth’s Time Bomb…And Ours
For the record…writing this gave me no pleasure, but how can you hope to solve a problem if you minimize its effects or, even worse, deny its existence?
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Lawrence Goldstone
Birthright Citizenship: An Important Note
I was asked if anything in the Constitution supports either the jus soli or jus sanguinis interpretation.
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Collusion: Trump v. Fourteenth Amendment
Amid the spate of executive orders issued by Donald Trump during his first day in office was one ending what has been called “birthright citizenship…
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In Defense of the Fair-Weather Fan
I grew up in Brooklyn during the Dodgers’ great run, which included their very first World Series victory in 1955.
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Lawrence Goldstone
The Evil Charade Continues
Although Donald Trump has yet to be inaugurated to begin what promises to be the most frightening presidential term in American history, two recent…
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Arms and the Common Man
I’ve written about this topic before, but if anyone is interested in a fuller, more in depth explanation of why this current roster Supreme Court…
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Lawrence Goldstone
The Ebb and Flow of Antisemitism
One year ago, the United States was gripped by an epidemic of antisemitism that was so aggressive and so blatant that many Jewish parents feared sending…
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December 2024

Where We Stand from Where I Sit
I wish it were possible to give a rosy year-end assessment of the state of our nation, but the enormity of the disaster that befell the United States on…
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Deeper Into the Absurd—A New Constitutional Convention
The lead paragraph in a recent New York Times article, read, “As Republicans prepare to take control of Congress and the White House, among the many…
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The Folly of Politicized Education
More than twenty years ago, Nancy and I attended a public forum at Yale that explored the ever-expanding role of technology in education.
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The Constitution is No Longer Relevant…Neither is Constitutional Law
For much of the past two decades, I have been writing about serious, potentially fatal, defects in the Constitution, some inadvertent but most…
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Biden Wakes Up. Democrats Don't.
With Donald Trump poised to return to the White House, gleefully plotting revenge against all enemies, foreign, domestic, and imagined, many wondered if…
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