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December 2025

To Break an Ugly Precedent in 2026
The once-unlikely presidential candidate and his most intimate advisors fashioned a campaign that was a brilliant combination of the thoroughly modern…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
A Corrupt Country Led by a Deranged and Petulant Child
(My apologies for posting this just before Christmas, but if Trump won’t let up, we can’t let up either.)
 • Lawrence Goldstone
Rob Reiner, Donald Trump, and the Moral Collapse of America
There is little need to revisit Donald Trump’s loathsome tweet after Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered, and then his refusal to retract any of it…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
Health Care Shutdown
Democrats, whose political strategy often falls somewhere between uninspired and inept, have finally turned the tables and suckered Republicans into an…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
The United States of Repression
On its home page, one state’s flagship institution of higher learning boasts, “For over 131 years, the University of Oklahoma continues to stand apart…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
When Polls (Might) Matter
I don’t usually put a lot of stock in polls as an accurate measure of whatever they purport to be measuring.
 • Lawrence Goldstone

November 2025

History Matters: Why We Have Gerrymandering
When George Orwell wrote his classic line, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others,” he could well have been talking about American…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
Trump is Feeling the Heat
After a string of disasters, from the Epstein vote to Election Day to the Texas gerrymander being tentatively nullified, Thursday should have been an…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
Land of Opportunity…if Democrats are (Finally) Smart Enough to Seize it.
In the wake of the last election, I, like tens of millions of others, sunk into despair.
 • Lawrence Goldstone
Shutdown Politics May Not Be As They Appear
Many of my progressive friends are appalled and disheartened by the defection of the eight Democratic senators who voted for the “compromise” floated by…
 • Lawrence Goldstone
Momentum is Fickle
Savvy sports fans know to never trust a big early lead.
 • Lawrence Goldstone
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