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Guest Post: The Political Machine Reexamined by Professor Nicholas Easton
Guest columnist Nicholas Easton is a community activist, former member and President of the Providence City Council during the turbulent Cianci administration version 1, and Political Science Professor. My recent book, The Political Machine Reexamined, for which I am still…
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Could This Be the One?
Under the Heading Giving the Devil his Due. President Trump has potentially achieved two things no President has ever done before. He’s created an opportunity for the formal end of the Korean War and the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.…
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A School Shooting and America’s Collective Sigh of Relief
You could almost hear America breathe a sigh of relief with the “good” news of the latest school shooting. The sounds of high-fives echoing from the NRA serving as a rhythmic background to the glad tidings. Their fondest dreams come…
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Suffer the Children #Neveragain: Time for Rational Discussion
Time to hold rational discussions on solutions to gun violence, supporting the efforts of the #neveragain movement, and using the power of their youthful enthusiasm to keep the issue in the forefront and craft intelligent solutions. Let me preface this…
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Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore: Seeking a Return to the Dark Ages
I wrote this last year about “Judge” Roy ‘get ’em while they’re young” Moore. If a Supreme Court Justice can’t follow federal law, how can he represent Alabama in the Senate? This is just one aspect of a troubled, character-flawed,…
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The Folly of Prayer vs. Guns
Here we are, just a few days out from the latest mass shooting, and what have we learned? A systemic failure allowed the shooter to buy firearms. He escaped from a mental health facility. He was court-martialed, imprisoned, and then…
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The Presidential Black Hole
It would seem to many the Trump presidency is collapsing under its own weight of arrogant incompetence. Within months it will be a black hole from which nothing, not even light, can emerge. But would this be good for the…
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Is President Trump Channeling the Ghost of Huey Long?
Many rational people across the globe are trying to understand the Trump phenomenon. His manner and affectations offer little in the way of encouragement. Unless one believes building a wall and destroying years of social progress a good thing. I…
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Dissolving the American Dream
As an optimist, I look for the positive in all things. Sometimes, it is all but impossible to find. Yet, even within the turbulence of the first week of the Trumping of America, there is a shiny element of good.…