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David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (dmg@regressiveantidote.net), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond. His website is www.regressiveantidote.net.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Kill The Supreme Court
Now that the snoozefest of the Sotomayor 'hearings' is over, it's worth thinking about what's wrong with the process, and what's wrong with the Court as well.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 27, 2010 Bipartisan Is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Win
Bipartisanship is all the rage now. It's a bad idea today, because it's little more than code for doing nothing but maintaining a status quo that favors elites. But it's even a bad idea in general, since it undermines democracy.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, May 7, 2010 The Age Of Ennui
Like the Brits who aren't quite sure what they voted for this week, Americans and others are stuck right now, wanting everything and nothing all at once.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 1, 2009 More Jefferson, Less Rove
As the New Year rolls in, some thoughts about a positive agenda for an equally renewed country.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 9, 2009 Barry In The Bush With Smiles
Barack Obama's presidency is careening out of control, and that's on a good day. Most of the time it looks a lot like Bush's third term. That's neither change nor something to believe in.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, June 12, 2009 The Rhetorical President
Barack Obama is disappointing on many fronts, but not rhetorically. That alone could be worth more than progressives realize.
SHARE Sunday, January 9, 2011 All The News That Isn't
Lots of big news this last week or two. If, that is, you haven't been paying much attention this last generation or two.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Fear Comes Of Age
Elena Kagan reminds me of Barack Obama, and both seem typical of their generation: all too often cowed into political silence.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 9, 2012 It's Just Parchment, Get Over It
We don't have to follow the Constitution every time we make a policy decision (or worse, pretend that we are). We could instead do what the Founders did: Think for ourselves.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 12, 2009 The Perils of Being Right and Wrong
Could the GOP possibly be more messed up? Could you make this stuff up, if you tried? Doubtful.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 27, 2010 Our Bloody Valentine
How 'bout that Iraq war, eh? How many ways can you say 'disaster'?
SHARE Monday, December 27, 2010 Learning From Lame Ducks
These clowns continually leave themselves wide open for withering attack, just as they did by opposing unemployment extensions for 'lazy' laid-off workers, or by opposing the pittance cost to provide health care for 9/11 first-responders, all based on the claim that we can't afford the spending, even though we absolutely must give massive tax cuts to billionaires.