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My kitchen sink: A 2020 Election Metaphor

October 1, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election Leave a comment

Three hours before the first presidential “debate” debacle kicked off, as I was blithely sautéing a batch of mushrooms, my kitchen sink inexplicably plunged—with

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I Guess They Weren’t Pillars After All

January 3, 2020 John Messmer 2020 Election, Democracy, Trump Leave a comment

I’ve been teaching political science full time at a community college for the last 18 years. And though I still love it, it’s gotten

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Schiff to Republicans: Speak out, already!

February 22, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Democracy, Democrats Leave a comment

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff [D-CA] has published an open letter to his Republican colleagues, urging them to, at long last,  break their

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Stopping Trump: a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity

May 31, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Republicans, Trump 3 comments

The current state of proliferating Trump scandals presents a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity for the first Republican to truly stand up for what is right.

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Why does the Trump presidency hurt so bad?

February 7, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Democracy, Government, Trump Leave a comment

I have not been the same since November 8, 2016. Trump’s presidency hurts. I’m taking it personally. But my anger, sadness and fear aren’t

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Going after Federal regulations: Trump discovers ‘dark matter’

February 1, 2017 Bill Kesler Government, Politics, Trump Leave a comment

In his first weeks in office, Donald Trump has been all about executive orders. He has also talked about going after Federal regulations. But,

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Toxic word spills are poisoning democracy

January 28, 2017 Renee Shur Democracy, Language/Words, Trump Leave a comment

Just one week into the Trump presidency, the newly inaugurated president and his circle of sycophants are working overtime to convince us that words

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Will democracy outlast Trump? Only if we work at it

January 20, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Democracy, Government, History, Trump Leave a comment

How does American democracy outlast Trump? We are about to experience the presidency of the least experienced, least qualified, most uninformed, most autocratic and

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Comparing Trump and Hitler: Uncomfortable but necessary

January 14, 2017 Pat Simons 2016 Election, History, Trump 2 comments

Before the 2016 election, some historians and journalists compared Trump’s ascension with Hitler’s rise to power in Germany before World War II. Now that

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There is still time to write to your electors

December 2, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Justice, Missouri region, Politics, Trump One comment

I used to think that Donald Trump might be the lesser of multiple “evils” among Republican choices for president. At best, he might be

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