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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS is a Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at StonyBrookMedicine (NY). As well as having been a regular political columnist on several national websites for over 20 years, he is the author/co-author/editor/co- OpEd News Member for 719 week(s) and 1 day(s) 603 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 174 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020Trump, COVID-19, the Election, and Planned Chaos This column is a presentation of an hypothesis of mine that the chaos that has gripped the nation since Trump and his administration refused to employ the standard, well-known, fairly easy-to-implement measures that have worked in many other countries, that could have prevented the development of the Trumpidemic2020(C) was planed. Far out? Yes. But given how the Trumps, and Barr, think, possible. Read on. 
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020The Destruction of Abortion Rights and the Rise of Religious Authoritarianism Abortion rights for women without State interference for reasons other than legitimate, non-interfering medical safety, is once again coming before the Supreme Court. The openly avowed objective of those bringing these cases is the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which would allow states to totally illegalize abortion. This is discussed in the context of the introduction of religious authoritarianism into U.S. civil life. 
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020Let's Hear it for Original Intent As the confirmation process for Trump's third Supreme Court Justice barrels along, we are going to her alot about "Original Internet," a favorite saw of Justice Scalia (except when it wasn't). In my book "The 15% Solution" I wrote a fictional Supreme Court decision, authored by "Chief Justice Steps" that overturns "Marbury v. Madison" etc., revoking established Review power for the Court. This column presents that chapter. 
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Thursday, September 17, 2020'Socialism,' Trumpite Red-baiting, and Bernie Sanders The Trumpites are running on a very simplistic platform, that is the "Four R's and an F:" Racism, Red-Baiting, Repression (of the vote), Red China, and Fear. One of their favorite targets is the "socialist" Bernie Sanders, not the nominee. This column explains what Bernie's version of "socialism" is (which is not really socialism, because it explicitly does not comprise collective ownership of the means of production. 
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Thursday, September 10, 2020Trump, His Magical Thinking, and Bob Woodward Trump has lived his life using a box of "Six Magic Tricks," of which I have written previously: click here. This column shows how, in the context of the "Woodward Revelations," he has used it to create what I have called the Trumpidemic2020(C). 
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Thursday, September 3, 2020"Trump and Fascism: A Retrospective This column presents brief descriptions and links to a Trump/fascism series of previously published columns of mine, beginning in 2011. That series was recently published on BuzzFlash.com. (Most of the columns were first published here on OpEdNews.) The series shows a steady progression in Trump's thinking (sic) and actions, progressing from "birtherism" to his recent complete takeover of the Republican Party. 
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Friday, August 28, 2020Der Fuerherprinzip, the Republican Party, and Leader Trump On his way to transforming our nation, Donald Trump has also been transforming the Republican Party, into what I for quite some time now have been calling "The Trumpublican Party." At the RNC that transformation was completed. For the Party no longer has its Platform. Rather, there is Trump's own AGENDA. Trump has made himself into the unquestioned leader, Der Fuerher, of the Party. And that's what this column is about. 
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Friday, August 21, 2020What is the Most Important Election in U.S. History?" There have been many highly critical elections in U.S. history, such as those of 1828, 1860, 1864, 1932 and 1940. Of those, up until now those of 1860 and 1864 have always been in contention for the top two slots (in the "most important" contest). In this column, I argue that, hands-down, the upcoming election is THE most important, without question. I give some historical background on each of the three. 
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Saturday, August 15, 2020Trump and Testing Trump just DOESN'T like Corona virus testing. This column discusses why this is so. 
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Thursday, August 6, 2020The Trumpidemic2020(C): What's in a Name? Some qualified observers (not just the Fox"News"/OANN alternate newsiverse) say that the Trumpidemic2020(C) is "America's" fault. It ain't. It's Trump's fault, and that is what this column. 
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020Fascism, the U.S. Ruling Class, and Trump The upcoming US election is primarily a battle between the two wings of the U.S. ruling class. One believes that the best way to maintain its control over the state apparatus is through a return to a set of democratic reforms, along the lines of an expanded "New Deal." The other is the wing that believes that its control can only be maintained through the imposition of fascism. It all revolves around the nature of the State. 
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020How Do You Spell "Democratic Party" in 2020? Without the Letters C-L-I-N-T-O-N in the Name: Responding to Commentaries This column is a collective response/commentary by me on the set of Commentaries that were offered on my previous column for OpEdNews. (For the link to that column see the beginning of this one.) I had fun doing it. I hope that you will have fun reading it. 
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020How Do You Spell 'Democratic Party' in 2020? Without the Letters C-L-I-N-T-O-N in the Name The Center-Right Democratic Leadership Council, originally founded by Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the 1980s, has dominated the Party from then until after Hillary Clinton's 2016 defeat. The Party now has a moderately progressive platform (with much input from the "Bernie Wing" of the Party), and a candidate who is rapidly becoming moderately progressive himself. This column is about the Clintons and what they did over time. 
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020If at First You Do Succeed, Do Do It Again This column is on Trump's current racist/red-baiting campaign strategy and why he has adopted it. The first part worked in 2016, so why not do it again. And if it needs a bit of updating this time around, the old Roy Cohn shtick certainly compliments it well. 
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Friday, July 3, 2020Trump and Treason? Really?" There is increasing speculation that Trump, facing both a series of for him insurmountable problems and declining poll numbers (much more important to him than the problems) will "pull a Johnson" and decline to run for re-election. Previously I speculated that given the legal problems that he would face upon leaving office, he would resign, and leave the country. Now, given the possible treason charge that becomes more likely. 
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020Trump Quits (Could it Be?)" Trump is a lifetime loser, as illustrated in previous columns of mine. Trump thought he was going to kick off his run for reelection in Tulsa bigly. But, it was a lousy start. The polls are running against him. He is out-of-control of each of the Three Major Crises facing our nation: the Pandemic, the next Great Depression, and the Campaign for the End to Institutional Racism. My guess about what he will do? Quit, all 'round. 
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Thursday, June 18, 2020Trump's Warriors, His Magical Thinking (further), and 'Tulsa' Trump simply cannot understand the nature of COVID-19 as a viral disease, how it infects people, how it is transmitted, thus how it spreads in a population, and so on and so forth. But he views "his people" as "warriors" in the fight against the pandemic, as if the virus were human. This sort of thinking has led to policies that not only don't control the disease, but actually help spread it. Which leads us to "Tulsa." 
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Friday, June 12, 2020Trump Reveals His 2020 Platform Trump faces some serious headwinds in his 2020 campaign the COVID-19 pandemic which his actions only make worse; the resulting Recession/oncoming Depression, which his actions do little to ameliorate. And now he has the massive national movement around the issue of institutional racism. And so Trump, the racist, has had to very quickly devise a platform to deal with the threat to a 2nd term. That is what this column is about. 
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Friday, June 5, 2020Institutional Racism, the George Floyd Murder, and the Fascist Threat The George Floyd murder is another in the never-ending series of police murders of black people, a modern version of lynching. This one, as is very well-known, has brought forward an ongoing series of demonstrations in city after city all over the country. There has been some occasional looting and arson, not associated with the marchers. Trump wants to call in the military. This column deals with the issues conjointly. 
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Thursday, May 28, 2020Why Trump Wants to Still be President at 12:01PM on Jan. 20, 2021 --- His Personal Reasons Trump is a life-long loser (see my OEN column: "Trump-loser"). He knows, for example, that he didn't fairly win in 2016, but rather did it with Russian help. Therefore he is desperate to win again in 2020, and then, to show that he really did, he will become Dictator. But that will still not make him feel right, because that can happen only with massive Trumpublican(C) cheating. And thus he will still bear the label loser. Page 10 of 31 First Last Back Next 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 View All |
