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US-Iran relations: When history isn’t history after all
By Jim Gaines I learned what a trickster history can be 20 years ago at Hanoi airport. After everything the United States gave and lost in Vietnam while trying to keep it safe from Communism, who would...
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Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom forum features a kinder, gentler Republican...
By Jim Gaines The great American composer and critic Virgil Thomson used to say that when he went to a concert, he didn’t listen to music. He listened for music. That was a good way to approach the...
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To celebrate the Fourth of July, don’t go see this movie
By Jim Gaines The week of July Fourth seems an odd time to release a film that questions the patriotism of the president of the United States, but that is precisely what right-wing idol Dinesh D’Souza...
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Why America can’t disown the children at our border
By Jim Gaines It only seems like the latest immigration crisis hit by surprise, turning up suddenly on the U.S. border from someplace deep in the jungles of somewhere else. In fact, the children’s...
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Waiting for the cold light of day in Missouri and the Middle East
By Jim Gaines Aside from the strange fact that both the Ferguson Police Department and the barbarians of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are using U.S. armor and weaponry, the shooting death of...
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US strategy vs. Islamic State: Better right than fast
By Jim Gaines In her recently published memoir Hard Choices, former Senator Hillary Clinton recounts the meeting, nine days after the election of 2008, when President-elect Barack Obama first asked her...
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A constitutional amendment to take Big Money out of politics dies quietly
By Jim Gaines This week the U.S. Senate considered a constitutional amendment that would have allowed Congress and state legislatures to limit the power of money in politics. The debate was not much...
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One in four Americans want their state to secede from the U.S., but why?
By Jim Gaines Click on the image to explore the the complete poll results. For the past few weeks, as Scotland debated the wisdom of independence, Reuters has been asking Americans how they would feel...
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You can take money out of politics, and Teddy Roosevelt did
By Jason Fields How is it possible that, given overwhelming public concern about the direction of the country, we could be facing historically low turnout in the midterm elections on Nov. 4? The...
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Clear-eyed dissent from Supreme Court’s ruling to allow Texas voter ID law
By Jim Gaines Before dawn on Saturday morning, the Supreme Court issued a terse, unsigned ruling that, in effect, endorsed Texas’s voter-ID law, the most restrictive such law in the nation. On October...
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Surprise! There may be a way to fix Washington.
By Jim Gaines The morning after the midterm elections, one of the best places to go for hope that the 114th Congress might actually get something done was a think tank not far from the Capitol called...
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