When Americans Stopped Believing In America
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Does anybody remember Lyndon LaRouche? He was a weird, if colorful, U.S....
Tag: American Culture
We Lost A Shared Reality
By Paolo von Schirach– WASHINGTON – May be this was never true; but for a very long time many...
Why America is a Unique Country – Part 2
WASHINGTON – Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers of America sincerely believed that “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit...
America’s Delicate Democracy How deep ideological divisions breed dysfunction
WASHINGTON – Democracy, anyone? But, yes, of course. We all want democracy. In principle we all agree as to...
Black Ghetto Kids Do Not Have Options Freddie Gray was a petty criminal who chose crime because his world did not provide alternatives
WASHINGTON – Freddie Gray’s death forced us to focus on the careless and cruel way in which police in Baltimore...
After 150 Years, We Still Mourn Lincoln’s Death Without his leadership, the newly freed Black slaves were pushed back to the bottom by segregation laws
WASHINGTON – 150 years ago President Lincoln was assassinated as he was watching a play. His killing, just a few days...
How Do We Turn Immigrants Into Citizens? The emotional debate is about the deportation of illegal immigrants. But we shoud think about how we help them to become Americans
WASHINGTON – Sadly, in the midst of so many strident polemics about what should be done regarding millions of illegal immigrants...
America Needs A New Interpreter Of The Old Values Ted McAllister describes the uniqueness of the American "Sweet Populism". Ronald Reagan led as a good prophet. Now Middle America needs a new one
WASHINGTON – Intentionally or by default, Barack Obama has become the champion of the dispossessed and of the downtrodden....
When Moral Behavior Is Based Purely On Convenience Stay loyal to your friends, because in the long run it pays
WASHINGTON – A retired elder statesman came up with wise advice for President Obama. He just wrote that, many...
Politics Is About Clever Manipulation We accept that candidates calibrate political messages according to what people want to hear, not according to what they believe
WASHINGTON – Presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is in the news. Various articles report on her artful maneuvers...