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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 779 week(s) and 0 day(s) 669 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 191 Comments, 0 Diaries, 1 Series, 0 Polls
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018The Popular Front: Once Again, it's Time The Popular Front, that exists in this country without the name, has to be followed to the voting booth and to the extent that it can be strengthened in these last two weeks before election day, that must be done. It means voting Democratic on THIS election day. Does that mean being a Democrat? Not necessarily. I hold no illusions about the Democratic Party. But right here, and right now, it means voting that way. 
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018A Blue Wave? Not if the Repubs. Can Help It There is a largely expected "Blue Wave" coming for the 2018 mid-terms, especially in the House. This column discusses a Repub. strategy to prevent that from happening that goes back to the late 1980s. 
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018Tribalism, No; Class Struggle, Yes "Tribalism" is an insulting mis-nomer for what is going on in U.S. politics today. Much more apt is the term "class struggle." Of course, class struggle always exists, but now it is coming more into the open, and the two sides, although the Repubs. have by far and away gotten there first, are becoming more organized around it. 
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018Trump. The Art of the Con: Is There a Method to His Madness? A variety of words have been used to describe Donald Trump and Trump's White House/Presidency. They are being used with increasing frequency as various "inside the White House" books, like those of Bob Woodward and Michael Wolff, and "pretty close to Trump" books, have come out. Among them are "deranged," "chaotic," "unhinged," "crazy," "bordering on senile," and "mad." I think quite the opposite, and this column explains why 
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Thursday, September 20, 2018On the Kavanaugh Nomination (as of Sept. 20, 2018) Being a set of Tweets that I posted on the Kavanaugh/Ford drama, expanded for this venue, with some additional commentary. (Have I ever been known to resist "additional commentary" when space allows? Well, nah.) 
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018'Anonymous' and the Ruling Class The now famous Op-Ed by "Anonymous" appeared in The New York Times on Sept. 5, 2018. By the very next day, The Times was publishing letters taking a variety of positions on both the process of publishing it and the content of the piece itself. For me "Anonymous" is not so much concerned about Constitutional government but rather with Trump's style and with his latterly divergence from traditional Repub. foreign policy. 
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Thursday, September 6, 2018Race remains the Trump Card I, and many others, have been writing about the "Trump base" for some time now. A variety of reasons have been given by a variety of observers for its sticky-ness to Trump. For me, it comes down to one word which many observers seem to shy away from (although, I must say, Paul Krugman does not): "racism." And that's what this column is about. 
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Friday, August 31, 2018Sex, Sin, and Abortion Rights Over the last several years the Roman Catholic Church has found itself confronted with a wide variety of scandals that involve sex and what Catholics describe as sins of one sort of another. This makes the fact that the Church and its right-wing non-Catholic Christian allies want to criminalize abortion on religious grounds an even more outrageous position than it already is. And that is what this column is about. 
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Tuesday, August 21, 2018From 'Fiddler on the Roof' to Netanyahu's Israel. How Did We Get from A to B? "Fiddler on the Roof" in English is a musical comedy with tragic overtones, especially at the end. "Fiddler on the Roof" in Yiddish is a tragedy, with comic relief and some good dancing. 
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018Trump, Racism, and the Republican Party Trump's racism is nothing new for the Republican Party, going back to Nixon's "Southern Strategy." Trump has just taken the hood off. 
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018Trump-Putin Peace: As Easy as Pie (Oh, Really?) Russia-U.S. Peace: The real problems to be solved to achieve it, beyond Trump/Putin and whatever that relationship may really be about.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018The Jewish Refugee Crisis in Europe, 1939 (with apologies for its length) This column offers a paper on the emigration/immigration of European Jews fleeing Nazi terror in the decade before the onset of World War II. It was written by my father, Harold J. Jonas, and published in the Contemporary Jewish Record in the Sept.-Oct. 1939 issue. Comparisons with the contemporary situation, from the Western border of Myanmar to the Southern border of the United States, are purely intentional. 
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018What the U.S. Ruling Class and the Repubs. are Most Afraid Of Voting Rights and their restriction have become a major target of the Republican Party and the major sector of the ruling class they represent. This column discusses the reason for that state of affairs. 
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Monday, July 9, 2018The Ruling Class and Donald Trump: Reaping the Whirlwind This column is about the back-and-forth relationship between Trump and the economically dominant sector of the U.S ruling class. It is currently not good for the latter. In my view, if Trump doesn't swing back, he will be gone. 
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Monday, July 2, 2018The German Enabling Act of 1933 and the USA Enabling Decision of 2018 In my view, the outcomes of the majority decision in the recently decided "Muslim Ban" case "Trump v. Hawaii," will in time come to be seen as the "USA Enabling Decision," in function much like the Nazi German Enabling Act of 1933. 
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Monday, June 25, 2018Election Planning: Trump Style The Trumpite leadership has planned, and is beginning to implement, a one-two propaganda punch aimed at winning the 2018 mid-terms: Xenophobia followed by frank anti-African-American racism. This follow the long, continuing campaign to suppress the vote in all those sectors of the population that tend to vote Democratic that they can get to. See also my column on The Big Blue Wave --Not So fast 
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018Trumpite Foreign Policy: Determined by Campaign Slogans Here it is in a nutshell. The mystery of Trump's foreign policy revealed. It's all based on campaign slogans. Yes indeed, the man does stick to his words (well at least certain of them). 
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Monday, June 11, 2018Retrospective No. 4: "On the 'Baker's Case' and LGBTQ Rights" The original version of this column was published in this space last December, at: click here, the day after Supreme Court heard the arguments in the "Baker's Refusal" case. I think it useful to revisit the matter in the light of the Court's horribly retrograde decision. 
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018On the Brink of Fascism in the U.S.: The Role of the Ruling Class, Part 2 As I said in the Introduction to Part 1 of this series, as he feels the walls closing around him, Trump moves closer to establishing a 21st cent. version of fascism. The political-economic system we know as fascism is put in place by a capitalist ruling class that feels its political control slipping. This column is the second of a two-parter on how fascism might come to the U.S., courtesy of a wing of the U.S. ruling class. 
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018On the Brink of Fascism in the U.S.: The Role of the Ruling Class, Part 1 As the legal and political walls close around him,Trump moves closer to establishing a 21st cent. version of fascism. But the political-economic system we know as fascism does not arrive out of history by itself. It is put in place by a capitalist ruling class that feels its political control slipping. This column is the first of a two-parter on how fascism might come to the U.S., courtesy of a wing of the U.S. ruling class. Page 18 of 34 First Last Back Next 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 View All |
