By Robert Knox In considering the title of Adam Hochschild’s recently published book, “American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis,” it’s those last two words that sting: “forgotten crisis.” The events described, often in vivid detail, and well analyzed in this book by an author…

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that it’s unconstitutional for Congress to restrict fossil fuel production to delay inevitable global death and destruction from unrestricted fossil fuel emissions, which of these new headline rulings are unlikely? Supreme Court overturns Thirteenth Amendment, citing the Constitution’s notorious “three-fifths rule” that clearly…

“We share the same biology, regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too” — “Russians” by Sting, 1985 By Robert Knox For all the analysis that we are reading and hearing about why Putin thought his armies would roll over…

There can never be too many democracies. Ukraine has never been a very important country to America. It was never an independent country before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. That’s when “the Ukraine” as Russian speakers and both their czarist and Soviet governments referred to that part…

What do the historically divisive elections of 1860 and 2020 have in Common? They were both about changing demographics. Question: What do the results of these contests telling the losing party? Answer: That in the jungle of politics, as in nature, you have to adapt to survive. When we see…

According to the Washington Post, Business Insider, and a host of other news media, a buffoon behind a microphone in a televised news conference on Monday afternoon (April 13) declared that he has “total authority” over the government of the United States. Since I don’t watch the TV news, particularly…

It’s a tough time in America right now. No one’s disputing that. But it was a tough time a hundred years ago as well, especially for…

The Creation Myth of America, and Why We Need to Remember It Now I feel most American when I’m reminded of my country’s birth story. It’s the foundational myth of America that gets to me. When I hear about the days of Lexington and Concord and am momentarily transported to…

Trump’s next stop, after we impeach him, has got to be The Hague. That’s where the International Criminal Court prosecutes war criminals. Because what he’s done to the Kurds in Syria, and to the American soldiers who fought with them, is nothing less than criminal on a breath-taking scale. He…